Grabbing the Brass Ring: Assessing the Evidence of the Lost Colony
Author(s): Charles Ewen
Year: 2019
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Contact and Colonialism" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The Lost Colony of Roanoake disappeared over 400 years ago and clues to its fate have remained sparse and open to debate. The discovery of a "gold" signet ring at an archaeological site on North Carolina’s Outer Banks in 1998 appeared to finally provide some tangible evidence for the location of at least some of the colonists. Twenty years later a new technology prompted a reexamination of the artifact and reassessment of the site from which it came.
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Grabbing the Brass Ring: Assessing the Evidence of the Lost Colony. Charles Ewen. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, St. Charles, MO. 2019 ( tDAR id: 449047)
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Keywords
General
Croatoan
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Lost Colony
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Ring
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Contact Period
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 101