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Name: Written in Bone : Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Author: Walker, Sally M

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Written in Bone : Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

Author: Walker, Sally M

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Follett Number: 0051LA9
Audience: Middle School
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books, 2009
Format: 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
LCCN: 2007-010768
Dewey: 614
Classifications: Nonfiction

Subjects:

Anthropology

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Antiquities

Forensic Sciences

Human Remains (Archaeology)

Jamestown (Va.) Antiquities

Includes bibliographical references (page 138-139) and index.;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. Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others.

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