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Written in Bone Ch. 4 (and) Ch. 5 Reading Check

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

JR1064B was believed to have been a ______________.

a)

knight

b)

captain

c)

teenage boy

2.

Where was JR1064B found?

a)

underneath a trash pit inside the fort wall

b)

beneath the church foundation

c)

outside the fort wall

3.

In archaeology, artifacts found from the "time before written history" are called ______________________.

a)

metazoic

b)

prehistoric

c)

medieval

4.

What was significant about the way in which JR1064B was buried?

a)

He was shrouded.

b)

He was buried in a coffin.

c)

At the time of burial, the colonists placed him beneath trash.

5.

What artifact led scientists to believe that JR1064B was upper class?

a)

a leading staff

b)

buttons found inside the coffin

c)

colonial pottery

6.

Why was the condition of JR1064B better preserved than that of JR1225B?

a)

The body was embalmed before burial.

b)

The body was buried in sandy soil.

c)

The body was shrouded before burial.

7.

JR1064B's bones revealed the beginning stages of ______________ (bony spurs that indicate arthritis as a person ages).

a)

Tuberculosis

b)

Dysentery

c)

lipping

8.

Who explored the Chesapeake Bay region in 1602, recruited John Smith, and named the settlement of Cape Cod? (hint: his skeleton is believed to be JR1064B)

a)

Archer

b)

Wenman

c)

Gosnold

9.

In 1634, a NEW group of settlers arrived in the Chesapeake region from England. They founded a NEW colony, _______________.

a)

Richmond

b)

Baltimore

c)

Maryland

10.

How did the English who came to the New World in 1634 plan to make money?

a)

mining gold and silver

b)

farming tobacco

c)

selling indentured servants

11.

Where did archaeologists find the "Body in the Basement?"

a)

a James Fort cellar

b)

a tobacco plantation

c)

under the church chancel

12.

The body in the basement came to be called the __________ ____________ boy.

a)

Leavy Neck

b)

Neale plantation

c)

trash pit

13.

What do scientists believe was the connection between Neale and the body in the basement?

a)

work

b)

family

c)

revenge

14.

Seventy to eighty-five percent of colonists came to the New World as ________________ ________________, and agreed to work 4-7 years in exchange for food, land, and a place to sleep.

a)

ship mates

b)

European slaves

c)

indentured servants

15.

In colonial times, farmers used large wooden barrels called ____________________ to store and transport tobacco.

a)

whiskey barrels

b)

urns

c)

hogsheads

16.

What led the team to determine the likely age and identity of the body in the basement? Hint: There were "few beasts of burden" in early Colonial America.

a)

His vertebrae had Schmorl's depressions.

b)

An indentured servant contract was later uncovered at the dig site.

c)

Neale's plantation records revealed the name of the body in the basement.

17.

What do scientists believe led to the boy's death?

a)

abscesses in the boy's teeth likely caused blood poisoning

b)

poor nutrition and lung disease

c)

foul play, abuse

18.

What did scientists discover about the boy's skeleton that led them to believe he had defensive wounds?

a)

two fractured bones in the right arm

b)

an injury to the cranium

c)

Schmorl's depressions

19.

Owsley reexamined the _____________ and found that the broken edges were rounded, like it had been used to hastily dig a grave.

a)

milk pan

b)

sherd

c)

leading staff

20.

Owsley determined the boy in the basement was likely between _____ and ____ years old when he died.

a)

11 and 12

b)

7 and 12

c)

15 and 16

21.

Of the 39 teeth present in boy's jaw, __________ had cavities and many had pus-filled infections called ____________.

a)

7, Schmorl's depressions

b)

19, abscesses

c)

12, metacarpals

22.

___________ ________, one of the original Jamestown colonists, kept a journal of the settlement's earliest days, which told of an honorable burial held in 1607.

a)

William Kelso

b)

Doug Owsley

c)

George Percy

23.

The three ships that sailed up the James River in 1607 were the ______________, the ___________ __________, and the ______________.

a)

Nina, Santa Maria, Pinta

b)

Godspeed, Susan Constant, Discovery

c)

Prospector, Gold Digger, Voyager

24.

As water trickles through the soil, extremely small amounts of __________________ are washed into it. In this way, they become a part of the regions drinking water and eventually show up in the teeth of skeleton's.

a)

isotopes

b)

leaves

c)

oxygen

25.

In 1698, after a fire destroyed an important government building in Jamestown, the capital was moved to the city of _____________________.

a)

Richmond

b)

Williamsburg

c)

Cape Cod