But I'm willing to say, 'OK, let's consider what some other scientists are saying. That's the only way we can evaluate it fairly. |
But there it is. You can see the foundations of the buildings he saw. And when he was writing in 1611, things at Jamestown looked pretty good. |
There was a lot of activity here, |
There was a lot of activity here. And it wasn't just a settlement of rich gentlemen who were lazy and didn't work and didn't know how to exist in the wilderness. |
We thought they were exaggerating before we saw the evidence in the ground, ... But - clearly - they were living on the edge. No wonder there were so many deaths. |
We're not just looking for archaeological features here. We're not just looking for artifacts. We're really trying to communicate with the way that these people thought and lived, |
What we've found is a whole new pattern of change that we hadn't thought of before. They changed their attitude toward the colony over time - and they really adapted to the reality they found in Virginia. |