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As Investigating Agents, carefully examine the evidence and record your findings on the Investigation Journal provided. When finished, log on to Edmodo and complete the A.R.E. Indictment assignment....
Note: the Intro Video and Exhibit H are NOT able to be viewed in the Computer Labs... so those items will be uploaded and able to be viewed from home. |
Intro Video: Lost Colony Roanoke
Investigation Exhibits:
Exhibit H: Map Findings
Copy of Investigation Journal
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK THIESSEN, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Images above from Roanoke; descriptions to the right of the pictures |
Part of an iron rapier handle was unearthed in the spring of 2015 at the Cape Creek site on Hatteras Island. Such weapons were used by Englishmen of high status.
Copper plates made in Europe were once tied together into a necklace for Native Americans. The artifact discovered on Roanoke Island in 2008 by a First Colony Foundation team is one of the few items found there that may date to the 16th century. The copper necklace from Roanoke Island was strung together by short, knotted cords, which rotted away long ago. Part of a crucible—perhaps used by 16th-century English metallurgists—was dug from an earthen mound on Roanoke Island in the early 1990s by Ivor Noel Hume. A peach pit unearthed at the Cape Creek site on Hatteras Island may date to the 16th century. Peaches are native to the Old World, and European settlers brought them to America. Gun parts were among the artifacts discovered at the Cape Creek site during excavations in 1998 during a dig of a Native American site. The object could be part of a weapon made in Elizabethan England. This lump of European copper was probably imported for trade with Native Americans. Since early 17th century trade typically used copper sheets, archaeologist Mark Horton argues that the bun may be from the time of the Roanoke colony. European metallurgists would have used weights like this, found on Roanoke Island at what has been dubbed a science center, to measure materials they were testing. This small copper eyelet, discovered in July at the Cape Creek site on Hatteras, might have been used in an article of Elizabethan clothing. Copper tubes called aglets were used in the 16th century to prevent wool laces from unraveling. A lump of smelted copper ore found on Roanoke Island is strong evidence of metallurgical work by Europeans in the late 16th century, since Native Americans lacked smelting technology. |