Book
Written in bone : buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Publication Information
Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c2009.
Physical Description
144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Summary
This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s.
Contents
- A grave mystery
- Who were you?
- Out of the grave
- The captain
- The body in the basement
- The luxury of lead
- The lead-coffin people
- Expect the unexpected
- Remember me.