William M. Kelso has been the chief archaeologist of the Jamestown Rediscovery project from the beginning. His “Jamestown: The Buried Truth” is a lucid and enthralling history of the excavations and of the reinterpretation of the events of the first few years of the Virginia colony. So clear and informative is the text that the volume is one of the best books ever on how students of the past, whether archaeologists or other kinds of historians, do their work.
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