Tidewater Virginia (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological deposits from Early James Fort have yielded an impressive collection of over three hundred lead seals of varied origin. These occasionally enigmatic artifacts provide an exceptional opportunity to expand our understanding of textile use at the site, filling an important lacuna in...
Jamestown: An English Fort in the Land of Tsenacommacah (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the last 28 years, the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeology team has uncovered nearly all of the original James Fort (ca. 1607). Once thought lost to erosion, the formulaic expression of this English fortification implemented in Virginia can now be reconciled in the context of the historical record and...