** Update ** Grace Esther Tsai & Elizabeth Latham got their funding target.
Friday Oct 6th, 2017 DEADLINE
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A fascinating project @ experiment.com
Were sailors actually ship-shape–or were they truly a sickly bunch? Find out with us! We are replicating shipboard food using the exact ingredients and methods from the 17th century. Then, a transatlantic voyage is simulated by storing the food in casks and keeping them on Elissa, the 19th century tallship home-ported at Texas Seaport Museum, a project of The Galveston Historical Foundation.
The nutritional and microbiological data from this project will offer a glimpse into the unique food situation, health, and daily life of past sailors.
Archaeologists: Grace Esther Tsai & Elizabeth Latham, Texas A&M University