The nature of the death of one of James Fort's earliest settlers, unearthed by Kelso and his crew and nicknamed J.R. for Jamestown Rediscovery, serves as a dramatic emblem for the new questions the dig is raising about early North American colonial life.

Photo courtesy APVA


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