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

by Walker, Sally M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, c2009Description: 144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.ISBN: 0822571358.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 | Anthropology | Forensic sciences | Human remains (Archaeology) | Jamestown (Va.) -- Antiquities | Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 614/.17 Online resources: Table of contents only
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.
Summary: Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-139) and index.

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.

Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010

School Library Journal starred, February 2009

Booklist starred, February 2009

Book Links-starred, March 2009

Kirkus Starred, February 2009

Horn Book, October 2009

Bulletin (Center for Children's books), April 2009

Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), April 2009

Teacher Librarian, June 2009

Library Media Connection, October 2009

Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others.

NC 1140 Lexile.

8.3

5-8 Follett Library Resources

Reading Counts RC 11.0 9.0

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