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10/15/08
The more than 1 million artifacts unearthed since 1994 at Jamestown, Va., are changing historians' views about the first Europeans who settled the Chesapeake Bay region, a prominent archeologist said last night at the Naval Academy. 
Courtesy photoArchaeologist Dr. William M. Kelso, director of archaeology at the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, was one of the few people who thought the fort at Jamestown, Va., built in 1607, could be located. Since 1994, he and his coworkers have unearthed 1.1 million artifacts at the fort's location, items that are causing historians to rethink what life was like in America's earliest British settlement. Find Us On Facebook
Records indicate that 104 men and boys came ashore on James Island on May 12, 1607, and by mid-June, they had already completed a fort. It was the first English settlement in the New World, and suffered a number of setbacks before the colony began to thrive. "Conventional wisdom about Jamestown was that only gentlemen went who wouldn't know how to survive," said Dr. William M....
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