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What a Shipwreck’s Tree Rings Reveal

Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Aoife Daly, and Marta Domínguez Delmás
In 1629, the Batavia, a ship of the Dutch East India Company, met disaster off the coast of Australia. A new analysis of the shipwreck’s tree rings uncovers how such vessels were built to advance European colonialism.