Written In Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
By Sally M. Walker
Chapter Six Vocabulary:
Geophysicist
reflect
resin
GPR
ruinous
formidable
Stratigraphy
disintegrate
hydraulic
Gamma Ray
inert
Bored
soil peel
Essay Questions:
1. Explain the difference in classes of society from the seventeenth century? Are there
societal differences today for the dead? Please elaborate.
2. Elucidate your understanding about the disruption of pattern in the GPR? Discuss other
technologies that work in the same manner.
3. Interpret the diagram on page 73.
4. Explain why it was necessary for scientist, Mark Moore, to develop a tool.
5. Contemplate why the ice chiller was required to act as a filter during the excavation.
6. Why do scientists warm the coffins during examination?
Interactive: You Choose One
1.
Summarize Principals of Stratigraphy. Then explain how these principals are used as
absolute proof in soil peels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3da3-znK4
Or
2. Summarize Principals of Stratigraphy. Then analyze the cross section on page 76 to
determine the movements that have taken place within the earth of Jamestown.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc3da3-znK4