William M. Kelso
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Kelso takes us literally to the soil where the Jamestown colony began, unearthing footprints of a series of structures, beginning with the James Fort, to reveal evidence of the lives and deaths of the first settlers, of their endeavors and struggles, and new insight into their relationships with the Virginia Indians. He offers up a fact-based account, framed around a narrative of the archaeological team's exciting discoveries. Unpersuaded by the common...
Publisher
University Press of Florida
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This volume summarizes the remarkably diverse archaeological discoveries made during the past half century of investigations at the site of St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and one of the earliest European settlements in America"--