Marilyn Johnson

 

Marilyn Johnson’s most recent book is Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble. She can be found at www.marilynjohnson.net or on Twitter.

Scientists have for the first time identified the four people buried in Jamestown's first church. They are (from left) minister Robert Hunt, Sir Ferdinando Wainman, Captain Gabriel Archer and Captain William West.

New Jamestown Discovery Reveals the Identities of Four Prominent Settlers

The findings by Smithsonian scientists dig up the dynamics of daily life in the first permanent British settlement in the colonies

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