The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies Part 2, Artifact Catalog
The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies Part 2, Artifact Catalog The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies Part 2, Artifact Catalog OTHER ARTICLES 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 strang...