Written in Bone

A

100

This material was used to make metal coffins for wealthy people in colonial Maryland.

Lead

200

This crop was grown to make money by the English in colonial America.

Tobacco

300

This metal causes green stains to appear when it decomposes.

Copper

400

This was found in the grave of "The Captain" and helped scientists determine the importance of the skeleton.

Leading Staff

500

This type of isotope helps scientists determine how long a person was in America before he/she died.

Carbon-13

B

100

This is the name for a scientist who studies history using graves and bones.

Forensic Anthropologist

200

This crop was harvested by the Native Americans and traded with the English for various things.

Corn

300

This is a type of servant that sells themselves for 7 years to gain passage to North America.

Indentured Servant

400

This is the name of the tribe who fought the English at Jamestown.

Powhatan

500

This was used to look inside the lead coffins without opening them.

Gamma Ray

C

100

These leave green stains on the bones of bodies that have been shrouded.

Shroud Pins

200

This was the name of one of the captains thought to be "The Captain" in chapter 4.

Bartholomew Gosnold

300

This is the burial process in which the dead are covered in a piece of fabric.

Shrouding

400

People from this continent did not arrive in America during this time, but were brought to the states in great numbers and against their will much later.

Africa

500

This is used to see objects buried in the earth without digging them up.

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)

D

100

This is the name of the first successful English colony.

Jamestown

200

This is an early leader of Jamestown and famous historical figure.

John Smith

300

This country colonized America to the south of Jamestown.

Spain

400

This is the process in which the soil is removed from a skeleton but left underneath it.

Pedestal

500

This is the name for the winter of 1608-09, during which a large number of Jametown's population died of hunger.

The Starving Time

E

100

This was found near the first skeleton's thigh bone, making scientists think the boy may have been in a fight with Natives.

Arrowhead

200

This is the year English colonists founded Jamestown.

1607

300

This man kept a journal of the early events of Jamestown.

George Percy

400

This is the part of a 17th century home where food is stored and where trash is thrown.

Cellar

500

This is where people in the 17th century used the restroom.

Chamber Pots