Ivory From Shipwreck Reveals Elephant Slaughter During Spice Trade

December 17, 2020/ RACHEL NUWER / Africa, Environment, Journalism, New York Times

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment

A trove from a Portuguese trading ship that sank in 1533 preserved genetic traces of whole lineages that have vanished from West Africa.

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