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The prevailing opinion by the 1990s was that most or all of the original Jamestown location had long since washed into the James River. [6] In 1993, Kelso became the Director of Archaeology for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (now Preservation Virginia) and launched the Jamestown Rediscovery project, starting excavations on Jamestown Island to ascertain if that was ...
Douglas Owsley (left) and Danny Schmidt examining the possible remains of Captain Bartholomew Gosnold (left). Jamestown Rediscovery is an archaeological project of Preservation Virginia (formerly the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) investigating the remains of the original English settlement at Jamestown established in the Virginia Colony in North America beginning on ...
Martin's Hundred was an early 17th-century plantation located along about ten miles (16 km) of the north shore of the James River in the Virginia Colony east of Jamestown in the southeastern portion of present-day James City County, Virginia. The Martin's Hundred site is described in detail in the eponymous book of Ivor Noel Hume first ...
The Hazard Farmstead (Joyner Site RI-706) (also known as Joyner Archeological Site RI-706) is a historic archaeological site in Jamestown, Rhode Island.It is the location of a major American Indian settlement whose artifacts have been dated from 2,500 BC to 1,000 AD.
Sir Yeardley was born in Southwark, England, in 1588 and arrived at Jamestown in 1610 after surviving a shipwreck near Bermuda. King James I knighted him when he went back to England in 1617.
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The Jamestown Archeological District (also known as the Great Creek Archeological District) is an expansive archaeological district which is the site of a major prehistoric Native American settlement in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Historic Jamestown is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America. It is located on Jamestown Island, on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia, and operated as a partnership between Preservation Virginia (formerly known as the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities) and the U.S. National Park ...