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== Archaeological finds ==
Olive jars found on shipwrecks of known date help establish a time line for changes in styles. Botijas were important shipping containers in the Spanish Empire, but were also used in wider trade networks. They have been found in the British Isles, Brittany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, Canada, the Philippines, Australia, the Solomon Islands, English settlements in North and South Carolina, and at the site of a Native American camp in Nebraska. Olive jars probably were used extensively by the Spanish for travel by land or small water vessels, carrying wine, olive oil, and water. The presence of olive jar sherds at archaeological sites are a good indicator of Spanish presence that lasted long enough for one or more jars to break. On the other hand, the absence of such sherds at archaeological sites that do have other artifacts of Spanish provenance, which may have arrived through trade or as plunder, may indicate that there was no Spanish presence at the site.
== References ==
== Sources == Beaman, Thomas E., Jr.; Mintz, John J. (Summer 1998). "Iberian Olive Jars at Brunswick Town and Other British Colonial Sites: Three Models for Consideration". Southeastern Archaeology. 17 (1): 92–102. JSTOR 41890392.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Busto-Zapico, Miguel (2020). "Standardization and units of measurement used in pottery production: the case of the post-medieval botijuella or Spanish olive jat made in Seville". Post-Medieval Archaeology. 54 (1): 42–59. doi:10.1080/00794236.2020.1750145. Carruthers, Clive (2003). "Spanish Botijas or Olive Jars from the Santo Domingo Monastery, La Antigua Guatemala". Historical Archaeology. 37 (4): 40–45. doi:10.1007/BF03376622. Hill, David V.; Bozell, John R.; Carlson, Gayle F. (2015). "Olive Jar Ceramics from the Eagle Ridge Site (25sy116) in Eastern Nebraska: Booty from the Villasur Expedition?". Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History. 80 (3–4): 409–418. doi:10.1080/00231940.2016.1151154. James, Stephen R., Jr. (1988). "A reassessment of the Chronological and Typological Framework of the Spanish Olive Jar". Historical Archaeology. 22: 44–66. doi:10.1007/BF03374500 – via Springer Link.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Worth, John E. (2023). "Spanish Olive Jar and other shipping containers of sixteenth-century Florida: quantifying the documentary record". Southeastern Archaeology. 42 (4): 252–271. doi:10.1080/0734578X.2023.2240600.
== Further reading == Avery, George (1997). Pots as Packaging: The Spanish Olive Jar and Andalusian Transatlantic Commercial Activity, 16th to 18th Centuries (PhD thesis). University of Florida. Retrieved August 30, 2024. Goggin, John M. (1960). The Spanish Olive Jar. An Introductory Study. Publications in Anthropology, No. 62. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University. Marken, Mitchell W. (1994). Pottery from Spanish Shipwrecks 1500-1800. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. ISBN 0-8130-2299-1.
== External links == Rotatable 3-D view of botija Report on olive jars (botijas and orzas) found in a 1622 Spanish shipwreck in the Straits of Florida