Case for the Burial of Ancestors by Paul Zelevansky

Discovering JaneĮxamination of a recently found skeleton at the James Fort site reveals the death of a young woman who survived a hurricane at sea but died soon thereafter in the face of starvation. Remote-sensing technologies are helping scientists locate forgotten men and women, such as the young woman found at an old tobacco plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore. With recovery of skeletal remains, the story of Africans in the Chesapeake is slowly unfolding, person by person. A decade later, they uncovered a surprising find in the cellar of a house - a human skeleton.įor an anime perspective of this discovery, also see the web comic The Secret in the Cellar. The Case for the Burial of Ancestors, Book 2: Genealogy.

The Body in the BasementĪrchaeologists from Anne Arundel County’s Lost Towns Project discovered the site of Leavy Neck, a small 17th-century farm, in 1991. Paul Zelevansky’s work is coming soon This is the second book of a trilogy in which Zelevansky has developed a rich structure of symbols, signs, myths and word play with which to describe the Hegemonions, an ancient desert civilization the people of the book. Investigators had only the bones and burial clues to tell the child's story. In 1992, archaeologists recovered the remains of an infant buried beneath the floor of the 17th-century Brick Chapel in St. Her coffin lay between a larger lead coffin holding the remains of a man, and a small lead coffin, holding the remains of an infant. In 1992, archaeologists opened a narrow, lead-covered coffin to find well-preserved remains of a woman strewn with rosemary sprigs.

Was this the colony's first fatality? Mystery Woman Found in Lead Coffin Clues indicate the burial took place during the first weeks or months of settlement at Jamestown. In August 2005, excavators discovered a skeleton inside James Fort, along the western palisade wall. In 2002, archaeologists uncovered an isolated grave just outside the log wall of a fort built on an island in the James River almost four centuries earlier.

The remains can tell us not only about the deceased person in life, but also about events prior to and surrounding death and burial. This modern forensic case spotlights just how much a skeleton can reveal.

Case for the Burial of Ancestors by Paul Zelevansky