Roanoke Island Trips Cleared Way For Jamestown, Researchers Say
01-24-07 - North America — , Virginia
Three researchers say a lesser-known yearlong expedition to North Carolina in 1585 may have provided valuable lessons for the colonists who came to Jamestown, Virginia 22 years later.
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They presented a paper about the so-called "Lost Colony" recently at the annual conference of the Society of Historical Archaeology in Williamsburg. Phil Evans, president of the First Colony Foundation, says the 108 men who came to Roanoke Island, North Carolina in 1585 learned that American Indians in the area cherished copper.
Evans wrote the paper with Nick Luccketti, principal archaeologist for the James River Institute for Archaeology in Williamsburg, and Eric Klingelhofer, archaeology professor at Mercer University in Georgia. Evans says when settlers arrived in 1607 at what would become Jamestown, the American Indian chief Powhatan had just lost his copper supplier and thus he was more tolerant of the English with their boatloads of copper.
The paper says archaeologists have discovered sheets of copper during digs at Jamestown. "
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