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Bottles, Booze, and Boats: An Analysis of the Presence of Dutch Genever Bottles on Age of Sail Shipwrecks (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although excessive alcohol consumption among mariners is a stereotype, there has been surprisingly little critical scholarly work on the subject or analysis of its archaeological footprint on shipwrecks. During the Age of Sail, the Netherlands issued alcohol rations of genever (jenever in Dutch) to crew members in the Admiralty,...