Written In Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
By Sally M. Walker
Chapter Two Vocabulary: Who were you?
Decomposition
Microbes
Decay
Shrouded
Bacteria
Pedestal
Situ
Essay Questions: Who were you?
1. Identify the development that deteriorated the teenager’s body.
2. Explain the advantage to pedestal ling a corps.
3. Brainstorm why physiques were shrouded before burial.
4. What evidence will Doug Owsley contemplate when investigating the age,
gender and ethnicity of JR1225B?
5.
Illuminate the theory of death for the Jamestown teenager.
Interactive:
Patterns of Settlement – Click on the link to find patterns of settlement. Establish
Owsley’s theory based on the patterns of settlement that is was indeed the Paohatan
tribe that was responsible for JR1225B death..