September 1999, Volume 54, Number 3.
Richmond, Virginia: Archaeological Society of Virginia, 1999. First. Softcover. Very Good. Copy may have markings on cover and bumping to corners. Interior clean. Item #174
From the estate of Williamsburg’s late chief archaeologist Ivor Noel Hume.
CONTENTS: Shackel, Paul A. Public Memory and the Rebuilding of the Nineteenth-Century Industrial Landscape at Harpers Ferry. Barber, Michael B. Industry as Rural Landscape: The Fenwick Iron Mining Complex, Craig County, Virginia. Geier, Clarence R. and Warren R. Hofstra. Native American Settlement in the Middle and Upper Drainages of Opequon Creek, Frederick County, Virginia. Bottoms, Edward. Summary Report on the Dime Site (44SK92), Suffolk, Virginia. Vacca, David P. Jetson Found at Brent Site (44ST130), Stafford County, Virginia. Blanton, Dennis B. Book Review of Time Before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina by H. Trawick Ward and R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr.
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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