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Gr 6-9 Walker takes readers on an archaeological investigation of human and material remains from 17th- and 18th-century Jamestown and colonial Maryland, while addressing relevant topics in forensic anthropology, history, and archaeology. The excavations encompass burial sites of colonists from various backgrounds, including a teenage indentured servant hastily buried in a trash pit, a grouping of prominent colonists laid to rest in lead coffins, and a woman of African heritage who likely toiled as a slave. Answers concerning the identity and fate of the uncovered remains are realiz...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Few nonfiction authors can infuse history and science with as much suspense as Walker has done—in Fossil Fish Found Alive (rev. 1/03), in Secrets of a Civil War Submarine, and now in Written in Bone. Walker follows a forensic anthropologist and his team of scientists, historians, and archaeologists as they uncover human remains and other artifacts in Jamestown and colonial Maryland. The...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

With precise detail and meticulous description, Walker follows a forensic anthropologist and his team of scientists, historians, and archaeologists ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

White teeth; straight leg bones; awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave at the skeletal remains of a person who had been buried there for four hundred years. “He was about fifteen years old when he died. And he was European,” Owsley concluded. With copious details and clear explanations that give the reader a true understanding of the processes involved, auth...Log In or Sign Up to Read More