Probing for a lost colonial church in Jamestown
December 23, 2016
JAMESTOWN, Va. (AP) — When the first archaeological excavations began at Jamestown in 1894, the study of the past through digging was not merely new but still being born.
Just 15 years had passed since 108 amateur enthusiasts founded America's first archaeological group in Boston, and —in far-off Egypt — many early efforts are looked back on today as only a few steps removed from grave robbing.
But led by a lady founder of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities — which had only recently acquired the land where the nation's first permanent English settlement was...
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