At the start of the 17 th century, a group of Englishmen docked their ships on the coast of North ... “We focus on a small aspect of this complex colonial process by investigating the ancestry of ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor ... 1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African settlers to Jamestown. Africans soon are put to work ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia ... Indentured servants became vital to the colonial economy.

Romo succeeds former archaeology director Dave Givens, who is now as the director of geophysics at Goodwin & Associates Inc.

There have long been dark secrets about America's first colonial settlement, Jamestown, Virginia ... who tragically died on a ship on his way to the colony. The other possibility lay in another ...

Colonial Williamsburg is offering a chance to dig into history with archaeologists from across Virginia on Nov. 16 at its ...