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Written in bone : buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland Cover Image Book

Written in bone : buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland / Sally M. Walker.

Walker, Sally M. (Author).

Summary:

This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0822571358
  • ISBN: 9780822571353
  • ISBN: 9781728424323
  • ISBN: 1728424321
  • Physical Description: 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis Minnesota : Carolrhoda Books, [2009]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-139) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Grave mysteries -- Social status/work/making a living -- Buried in cloth and wood -- Health, nutrition, and cause of death -- The luxury of lead -- The lead coffin people -- Who were these people? -- In the flesh.
Target Audience Note:
NC1140L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 9 6 127307.
Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 9.0 6.
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection

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Subject:
Forensic anthropology.
Forensic osteology.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Human remains (Archaeology) > Virginia > Jamestown.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) > Antiquities.
Jamestown (Va.) > Antiquities.
Genre:
Young adult literature.

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  • 34 of 35 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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