Topic: Jamestown

Jamestown Find: Personalized Pipes

Bearing perhaps the earliest printing in English America, fragments of 400-year-old personalized pipes have been found at Virginia's Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, archaeologists say.. The personalized clay pipes, which archaeologists say were probably made between 1608 ...

Pocahontas's Wedding Chapel Found

The remains of the church where Pocahontas married an English tobacco farmer have been discovered at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, archaeologists announced in October. Pocahontas's wedding chapel wasn't the first church at Jamestown, but it ...
There is one celebration you shouldn't miss in 2007. Thirteen years before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the first English settlement in the Americas was founded at Jamestown, Virginia. The 400th commemoration of this event is being celebrated over 18th months ...
Thirteen years before the Pilgrims had even set foot in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 104 English men and boys, representing the Virginia Company of London, had made the four-and-a-half month ocean voyage in three ships designated the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed ...
For instance, Jamestown and Williamsburg is not only a fun place to travel, your homeschoolers will have a chance to interact with people from the time period of the settelement. Williamsburg is a bustling town that has a great deal of history ...

Proto-Human Diet, British Neanderthals, Maya Glue

The 2-million-year-old bones of fish, crocodiles and turtles, all rich in brain-fueling fatty acids, were found with stone tool fragments near a lake in Kenya. Two pieces of flint unearthed in Dartford, Kent, have been dated to 110,000 years ago.. And, finally, ...

Colonial Virginia

I Thirteen years before the Pilgrims had even set foot in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 104 English men and boys, representing the Virginia Company of London, had made the four-and-a-half month ocean voyage in three ships designated the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the ...

CRIMINALS BEWARE

The article offers information on the Art Crime Team of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is sent to investigate and track down stolen artifacts and the thieves. When Jamestown archaeologists unearthed the remains of James Fort and began discovering ...

Resources for educators

" William Kelso is lucky to be the Head Archaeologist in the Jamestown rediscovery project lucky in that he was at the right place in his career as an archaeologist when the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities decided to investigate ...

Digs powhatan

Trudging through swamp mud on a cold February day in 1608, Capt. John Smith and a small band of armed men approached a rickety wooden bridge. Werowocomoco was abandoned, and the location of the dramatic confrontations between Smith and Powhatan that ensured ...
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