Tiny crystals from a 17th-century shipwreck hold secrets of a global supply chain at the dawn of capitalism
By Anthony Clarke, Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
Nearly four centuries after the Batavia wrecked, a new study about its precious cargo shows that stories can indeed be written in stone.
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