Martin's Hundred
By: by Ivor Noël Hume
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780394507286
Subjects: Homes and haunts; Résidences et lieux familiers
Description: This first-hand account examines an important excavation in American historical archaeology--the discovery of a lost plantation, providing extensive evidence of English colonial life in early seventeenth-century Virginia.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 331-332.
Table of contents: title: Looking for the old plantation; title: The Jamestown perspective; title: Matters of grave concern; title: Putting the governor in his place; title: Painters and potters; title: Pipe dreams; title: Hallmarks of failure; title: Peeces, pallisadoes, and problems; title: Back to B; title: Murder in the company compound; title: Spadework; title: Burning questions; title: Granny in the ground; title: And the Gods looked down; title: Artifact dimensions.