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Governor's land : archaeology of early seventeenth-century Virginia settlements / Alain Charles Outlaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Outlaw, Alain Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Virginia--Governor's Land Archaeological District.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Governor's Land Archaeological District (Va.).
- Virginia--Antiquities.
- Virginia.
- Antiquities.
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- History.
- Virginia--Governor's Land Archaeological District.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Archaeology of early seventeenth-century Virginia settlements.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : Published for the Dept. of Historic Resources by the University Press of Virginia, 1990.
- Summary:
- The first domestic settlement, the Maine, is one of the earliest historic sites yet excavated in the Chesapeake region. It appears to have been occupied during the dying gasps of Virginia company control. The study of the site and artifacts shows that the Maine barely survived its first decade. Insubstantial dwellings, portable goods, and casual disposal of the dead suggest the impermanence of the settlement and lend credence to the historians' 'Boomtown' theory for the 1620s. The terminal dates of recovered artifacts show that his early 'subberb' of Jamestown expired shortly after the Indian massacre of 1622.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0813908752 :
- OCLC:
- 20919117
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