![]() ![]() Water either too salty or contaminated, food spoiled by heat and humidity, crops destroyed by drought, disease spread by insects, Indians fiercely hostile to outsiders, life-threatening accidents, volatile. Kelso, who serves as head archaeologist of the Jamestown Recovery Project, discloses the grim in situ and documentary evidence of those seasons of famine: desperately eaten dogs, cats. Kelsos fascinating Jamestown: The Buried Truth. The first settlers at James Fort, later expanded into Jamestown, soon discovered the dark side of such fantasies. It is a historical irony that this period of misery, the 'starving time,' provides a highpoint in William M. Of course advertisements, then and now, are notoriously unreliable. And these men preferred to imagine the ready hospitality of friendly local women. These potential colonists were also largely grain-eaters who valued animals as a culinary luxury as well as a profitable resource. Keenly aware of the importance of real estate to one's social standing and economic survival, landless men became the most likely prospects to undertake the dangerous transatlantic journey. In Jamestown, the Buried Truth, William Kelso takes us literally to the soil where the Jamestown colony began, unearthing the James Fort and its contents to reveal fascinating evidence of the lives and deaths of the first settlers, of their endeavors and struggles, and of their relationships with the Virginia Indians. ![]() The earliest advertisements for New World settlement promised or intimated a plentitude of land, meat and women. Kelso Narrated by: Rick Adamson Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins 4.1 (63 ratings) Try for 0. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good. Jamestown, the Buried Truth By: William M. ![]()
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