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The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog
Hume, Ivor Noël ; Hume, Audrey Noel ; Hume, Audrey Noël (Author)
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University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
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The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog - Hume, Ivor Noël ; Hume, Audrey Noel ; Hume, Audrey Noël
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Synopsis "The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog"
The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred explores the history and artifacts of a 20,000-acre tract of land in Tidewater, Virginia, one of the most extensive English enterprises in the New World. Settled in 1618, all signs of its early occupation soon disappeared, leaving no trace above ground. More than three centuries later, archaeological explorations uncovered tantalizing evidence of the people who had lived, worked, and died there in the seventeenth century. Part I: Interpretive Studies addresses four critical questions, each with complex and sometimes unsatisfactory answers: Who was Martin? What was a hundred? When did it begin and end? Where was it located? We then see how scientific detective work resulted in a reconstruction of what daily life must have been like in the strange and dangerous new land of colonial Virginia. The authors use first-person accounts, documents of all sorts, and the treasure trove of artifacts carefully unearthed from the soil of Martin's Hundred. Part II: Artifact Catalog illustrates and describes the principal artifacts in 110 figures. The objects, divided by category and by site, range from ceramics, which were the most readily and reliably datable, to glass, of which there was little, to metalwork, in all its varied aspects from arms and armor to rail splitters' wedges, and, finally, to tobacco pipes. The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred is a fascinating account of the ways archaeological fieldwork, laboratory examination, and analysis based on lifelong study of documentary and artifact research came together to increase our knowledge of early colonial history. Copublished with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
