Blurb:

The significance of this introductory chapter is twofold. First, it exposes an unsettling ambiguity, which threatens to challenge the received historical narrative of the colonization of Virginia by English Protestant settlers. And second, it exposes the craft of interpretive archaeology, revealing how archaeologists often implicitly create an ‘interpretive hierarchy’ in which less favoured interpretations are ‘glossed over in favour of a single, polished conclusion’ (p. 18).