March 2005, Volume 60, Number 1.
Richmond, Virginia: Archaeological Society of Virginia, 2005. First. Softcover. Very Good. Copy may have markings on cover and bumping to corners. Interior clean. Item #160
From the estate of Williamsburg’s late chief archaeologist Ivor Noel Hume.
CONTENTS: Vest, Jay Hansford C. The Origins of the Johns Surname: A Monacan Ethnogenesis. Hranicky, Wm Jack. McCary Fluted Point Survey A Points 1009 to 1014: A Continuing Study of Virginia Paleoindian Technology. Higgins III, Thomas S. Changing Landscape/Changing Traditions: Domestic Life at an Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Farmstead in Augusta County, Virginia. Browning, Lyle E. Falling Creek Ironworks: Past, Geophysics, and Future. Abstracts, Archeological Society of Virginia Annual Meeting, October 29-31, 2004, Lexington, Virginia.
Hume served as the chief archaeologist of Colonial Williamsburg from 1957-1987. He was the author of more than 20 books and innumerable professional articles. Hume was born in London and studied at Framlingham and St. Lawrence Colleges. He served in the British Army during World War II before pursuing a career in archaeology. He came to American in 1957 after nearly 10 years on the staff at the Guildhall Museum in London. Throughout his long career he established the importance of archaeology in describing the social and economic life of those who left behind the artifacts uncovered. In America, Hume is credited with discovering one of the earliest English colonial settlements at Wolstenholme Town. What we know today about the life of the early British colonies in America is because of Hume’s tireless efforts to tell the story of it’s inhabitants.
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