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Excavating Fort Raleigh
Archaeology at England's First Colony
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- English
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eBook - ePub
Excavating Fort Raleigh
Archaeology at England's First Colony
About this book
Dig into a first-hand account of excavations at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. A small earthen fort on Roanoke Island, traditionally known as Old Fort Raleigh, was the site of the first English colony in the Americas. Previous archaeological discoveries at the site left many questions unanswered by the 1990s. Where was the main fort and town founded by Raleigh's lieutenant, Ralph Lane, the first governor? Was the small log structure outside the fort really a defensive outwork? And why did the colonists go to the effort of making bricks from the local clay? These are the questions that scholars hoped to answer in an extensive, professional dig funded by National Geographic from 1991 to 1993. This skilled team of excavators-with a little luck-revealed America's first scientific laboratory, where the Elizabethan scientist Thomas Harriot analyzed North American natural resources and Joachim Gans assayed ores for valuable metals./Famed archaeologist of Colonial America Ivor Noël Hume describes the labor-intensive process of discoveries at Fort Raleigh.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Author’s Preface
- Editors’ Preface
- Foreword, by David E. Hallac, National Park Service
- Foreword, by Phillip W Evans, First Colony Foundation
- Introduction: In Search of America’s First English Settlement
- 1. Amadas to White: A Historical Summary
- 2. Fort Raleigh: The Later History
- 3. Fort Raleigh: The Archaeology, 1947-85
- 4. More Archaeology, 1991-93
- 5. Things They Brought, Left or Took Away
- 6. The Fort Raleigh Earthwork: Evidence and Interpretations
- 7. The Future of the Past
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- About the Author
- About the Editors
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Yes, you can access Excavating Fort Raleigh by Dr. Ivor Noel Hume, Dr. Eric Klingelhofer,Nicholas Luccketti in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Early American History. We have over 1.5 million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.