area to look at in the future, far beyond my career, i would say. and your work is complicated there by the fact that that area was used as a civil war fort, fort pocahontas. right. yeah. in 1861, the fort pocahontas was built by the confederate army. and it by wherever they scooped to get earth to put up bank to protect the guns, the original the original 1607 settlement was being disturbed. however, where they piled the dirt, that was preserved. but so we decided that we needed to see the most preserved part of the fort under the fort, and so we looked archaeologically at the earthworks first because you had to get through that to get to the earliest site. so, that s the reason that we had to remove some of the fort, but i d say we dismantled it, because we recorded it all. and the artifacts that were in that dirt pile were unbelievable, as a matter of fact, too. now, as far as preservation goes, and the time limit, i d say we know for one fact that the armor and ar
my husband is descended from pocahontas and john rolf through pocahontas grandson granddaughter, excuse me, jane rolf, who married a man called robert bowling. my mother-in-law s late mother-in-law was a bowling. a few moments ago the commentator said to you this was the church where pocahontas married john smith. and as you know more than i, it was john rolf she married. but i notice that a great many people make that mistake, thinking that pocahontas married john smith. it s a pity about that. i think john rolf kind of gets pushed to the background. thank you very much for this program. it s of great interest. thank you, patricia. thank you. let s go to ft. lauderdale. david s on our line in ft. lauderdale. hi, david, go ahead. caller: hi, dr. kelso, i would like you to comment, if you can, about the trend of american high schools starting american history off at 1870 instead of where we should be the discovery or, rather, the colonization of america. they seem t
today the archaeologists uncovered this wonderful medallion from a german stoneware bottle. made in germany near cologne. it s unique. we don t have one like it so i ll have to do research to figure out who it is depicting. it would have been a bottle that would contain beer or wine, so for alcoholic beverage. you had mentioned in the hour long preview, the documentary we just saw, that you had to learn how to read the artifacts 1 1/2 million artifacts you ve uncovered in the last 20 years or so. what do you mean by reading it? what s the most important part of that? what i meant by that was that i have to learn the context of each of the materials. why they were made, where they were made, what their purpose was, who may have carried them to jamestown, what their use may have been in jamestown. it may have been different from their original usage in england. and it becomes very complex when you try to put all those stories together, because each material type has a diffe
on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs on our web site. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. you re watching american history tv. joining us live from the historic jamestown settlement, jim kelso and senior curator bly strom. thank you to both of us for joining us on this beautiful saturday afternoon. we d like to invite our viewers to join us. you can call or you can participate by twitter. i understand, bly, you have something with you that you actually discovered on the project today. can you show it to us and tell us what it is? yes. wonderful this evenings show up all the time. today the archaeologist uncovered this wonderful medallion from a german sto stoneware bottle. we ll have to do some research to figure out who it is depicting. it would have bottle that contained beer or wine. you had mentioned in the hour long preview, the documentary we just saw, that you had to learn how to read the artifacts 1 1/2 million arti
twitter, bill kelso and bly straube, what would you like to see happen at dig sites when you have finished your research? well, i can just speak to the site itself. we spent a lot of time trying to interpret the footprint that we find below ground of buildings and the shape of the fort and all without doing total reconstructions, we go to a point where we really don t some of the things the way the building looked. my first desire when i first came to this area 50 years ago was to come and walk on the grounds, walk the site of this first fort in 1607 fort, and i was told it was washed away in the river. but now people can do that. we d have to do some three-dimensional markings for it to be interpreted. i hope people can come here and be able to understand it, understand this really hallowed place automatically by the way what we ve put on the landscape. i don t know, bly might have more to say on that. we are going to spend the next half hour with bly straube and bill