Jamestown Archaeology: Remains To Be Seen

REVIEW BY DENNIS B BLANTON This new book from William Kelso is in the tradition of popularised portrayals of archaeological discoveries linked to the ‘Virginia adventure’. Beginning in the 1960s, Ivor Noël Hume published several evocative, book-length accounts of studies of the ‘Tidewater’ region – that is, the north Atlantic Plain. Just as Hume’s stories did, this new work will captivate readers seeking to understand the story of Jamestown’s founding, its legacy, and how knowledge of it has improved with the advent of new research since the 1990s. In essence, it is a thoughtfully conceived series of short stories from the archaeologist who spearheaded the ‘rediscoveryâ