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Jamestown Archaeological Assessment
In 1992 the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the College of William and Mary began a five-year cooperative agreement with the National Park Service to investigate Park-owned property on Jamestown Island. Working in parallel with the excavations of James Fort by the Associated for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities under the direction of Dr. William Kelso, this study is providing important new insights about the history of this very important part of America’s history. The following article, produced by Drs. Marley R. Brown III and Audrey J. Horning, is taken from the Colonial Williamsburg Research Review, Vol. VII (Spring 1997).