Written in bone : buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland

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

Author/creator	Walker, Sally M.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Minneapolis, Minn. : Carolrhoda Books, ©2009.
Description	144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Subject(s)	Forensic anthropology--Juvenile literature. Forensic osteology--Juvenile literature. Human remains (Archaeology)--Virginia --Jamestown --Juvenile literature. Human remains (Archaeology)--Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) --Juvenile literature. Jamestown (Va.)--Antiquities --Juvenile literature. Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Antiquities --Juvenile literature.

Contents	A grave mystery -- Who were you? -- Out of the grave -- The captain -- The body in the basement -- The luxury of lead -- The lead-coffin people -- Expect the unexpected -- Remember me.
Abstract	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.
Local note	Little-350768--305131037206V
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-139) and index.
Study program note	Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
Awards note	A Junior Library Guild selection
LCCN	2007010768
ISBN	9780822571353 (reinforced) :
ISBN	0822571358 (reinforced) :
Stock number	Junior Library Guild http://www.juniorlibraryguild.com