Martin's Hundred: The Discovery of a Lost Colonial Virginia Settlement [paperback] Hume, Ivor Noel [Jan 01, 1982]

Martin's Hundred

History

Hume, Ivor Noël

Americas

Doubleday Books

For thirty-five years, as writer, lecturer, and chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg, Ivor Noel Hume has enlivened for us the material culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. After his warmly praised book Martin's Hundred, he now turns to the two earliest English outposts in Virginia -- Roanoke and James Towne -- and pieces together revelatory information extrapolated from the shards and postholes of excavations at these sites with contemporary accounts found in journals, letters, and official records of the period. He illuminates narratives that have a mythic status in our early history: the exploits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. He recounts a recent important excavation at Roanoke where he and his colleagues found the work site of a metallurgist named Joachim Gans, whose findings about the mineral wealth of Virginia helped to convince London merchants that America was a worthy risk This is an account of high and low adventure, of noble efforts and base impulses, and of the inevitably tragic interactions between Indians and Europeans, marked by greed, treachery, and commonplace savagery on both sides. The astonishment of this history is that despite bad luck, bad management, and bad blood, the English presence in America persisted and the Virginia settlements survived as the birthplace of a country founded on English law and language. With clarity, authority, and elegant wit, Noel Hume has enhanced our understanding of the historical forces and principal players behind England's first perilous ventures into the New World, and proved again that he is without a doubt one of the great interpreters of our early colonial past.

The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne: An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey

KNOPF

Here's an archaeologist's experience in the field and the museum--part history, part memoir, part buyer's guide. This book is an indispensable guide for the historian, the collector, the curious.

Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America

Vintage

Cited in virtually every colonial-era site study of North America, A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America holds a place of honor among historical archaeologists. It is a classic, highly sought-after handbook for the professional archaeologist, museum curator, antiques dealer, collector, or social historian. Though first published more than thirty years ago, Ivor Noel Hume's guide continues to be the most useful and accurate reference on the identification of artifacts recovered from Anglo-American colonial sites.
This edition contains a new preface, updated references, and corrections based on recent scholarship, in addition to the original 102 photographs and line drawings. With a list of forty-three categories, including buttons, cutlery, stoneware, and firearms, collectors and curators of early American artifacts will find this book insightful, informative, and indispensable.
An acclaimed archaeologist and historian, Noël Hume understands the interests of both professionals and enthusiasts. He manages to combine out-of-the-ordinary information with a lively presentation. His extensive knowledge and experience make this richly detailed text communicate something beyond the facts—the reality of other times, places, and cultures.

A Guide to the Artifacts of Colonial America

University of Pennsylvania Press

In The Virginia Adventure, Noel Hume turns his attention to the two earliest English settlements in Virginia, Roanoke and James Towne, with fascinating results. Combining information gathered through excavations of the sites with contemporary accounts from journals, letters, and official records of the period, the author illuminates the exploits of Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the dissapearance of the Roanoke colony.

The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne (The Virginia Bookshelf Series)

University of Virginia Press

The Italian son of a barber. A failed hydraulic engineer. A giant who performed feats of strength and agility in the circus. Giovanni Belzoni (1778–1824) was all of these before going on to become one of the most controversial figures in the history of Egyptian archaeology. A man of exceptional size with an ego of comparable proportions, he procured for the British Museum some of its largest and still awe-inspiring treasures. Today, however, the typical museum visitor knows nothing of Belzoni, and many modern archaeologists dismiss him as an ignorant vandal.
In this captivating new biography, Ivor Noël Hume re-creates an early nineteenth century in which there was no established archaeological profession, only enormous opportunity. Belzoni landed in Egypt, where he was unsuccessful in selling a hydraulic machine of his own invention, and came under the patronage of diplomat Henry Salt, who convinced him to travel to Thebes in search of artifacts. Among the many treasures Belzoni would bring back was the seven-ton stone head of Ramesses II, the "Young Memnon."
The book includes gripping accounts of Belzoni’s wildly productive, and physically brutal, expeditions, as well as an unforgettable portrait of his wife, Sarah, who suffered the hardships of the Egyptian deserts and later bore the brunt of the disillusionment that came with the declining popular perception of her husband. Including numerous illustrations, many in color, this volume brings one of archaeology’s most fascinating figures vividly to life.

Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Univ of Virginia Pr

Illustrated with 58 black and white plates, 7 color plates, and 19 black and white figures.

Early English Delftware from London and Virginia

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Something From the Cellar includes selected essays by Ivor Noel Hume, who headed Colonial Williamsburg's archeological program for thirty years. In this eclectic collection from the pages of Colonial Williamsburg, the popular history journal, Noel Hume ventures beyond Williamsburg to such historic places as Jamestown

Something From the Cellar: More of This & That----Selected Essays from the Colo

Glass in Colonial Williamsburg's Archaeological Collections

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

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Martin's Hundred

The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne: An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey

Martin's Hundred

Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America

A Guide to the Artifacts of Colonial America

The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne (The Virginia Bookshelf Series)

Belzoni: The Giant Archaeologists Love to Hate

Early English Delftware from London and Virginia

Something From the Cellar: More of This & That----Selected Essays from the Colo

Glass in Colonial Williamsburg's Archaeological Collections