WorksheetsWritten in Bone Ch. 4 (and) Ch. 5 Reading Check
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 15mins
JR1064B was believed to have been a ______________.
knight
captain
teenage boy
Where was JR1064B found?
underneath a trash pit inside the fort wall
beneath the church foundation
outside the fort wall
In archaeology, artifacts found from the "time before written history" are called ______________________.
metazoic
prehistoric
medieval
What was significant about the way in which JR1064B was buried?
He was shrouded.
He was buried in a coffin.
At the time of burial, the colonists placed him beneath trash.
What artifact led scientists to believe that JR1064B was upper class?
a leading staff
buttons found inside the coffin
colonial pottery
Why was the condition of JR1064B better preserved than that of JR1225B?
The body was embalmed before burial.
The body was buried in sandy soil.
The body was shrouded before burial.
JR1064B's bones revealed the beginning stages of ______________ (bony spurs that indicate arthritis as a person ages).
Tuberculosis
Dysentery
lipping
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)
Archer
Wenman
Gosnold
In 1634, a NEW group of settlers arrived in the Chesapeake region from England. They founded a NEW colony, _______________.
Richmond
Baltimore
Maryland
How did the English who came to the New World in 1634 plan to make money?
mining gold and silver
farming tobacco
selling indentured servants
Where did archaeologists find the "Body in the Basement?"
a James Fort cellar
a tobacco plantation
under the church chancel
The body in the basement came to be called the __________ ____________ boy.
Leavy Neck
Neale plantation
trash pit
What do scientists believe was the connection between Neale and the body in the basement?
work
family
revenge
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.
ship mates
European slaves
indentured servants
In colonial times, farmers used large wooden barrels called ____________________ to store and transport tobacco.
whiskey barrels
urns
hogsheads
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.
His vertebrae had Schmorl's depressions.
An indentured servant contract was later uncovered at the dig site.
Neale's plantation records revealed the name of the body in the basement.
What do scientists believe led to the boy's death?
abscesses in the boy's teeth likely caused blood poisoning
poor nutrition and lung disease
foul play, abuse
What did scientists discover about the boy's skeleton that led them to believe he had defensive wounds?
two fractured bones in the right arm
an injury to the cranium
Schmorl's depressions
Owsley reexamined the _____________ and found that the broken edges were rounded, like it had been used to hastily dig a grave.
milk pan
sherd
leading staff
Owsley determined the boy in the basement was likely between _____ and ____ years old when he died.
11 and 12
7 and 12
15 and 16
Of the 39 teeth present in boy's jaw, __________ had cavities and many had pus-filled infections called ____________.
7, Schmorl's depressions
19, abscesses
12, metacarpals
___________ ________, one of the original Jamestown colonists, kept a journal of the settlement's earliest days, which told of an honorable burial held in 1607.
William Kelso
Doug Owsley
George Percy
The three ships that sailed up the James River in 1607 were the ______________, the ___________ __________, and the ______________.
Nina, Santa Maria, Pinta
Godspeed, Susan Constant, Discovery
Prospector, Gold Digger, Voyager
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.
isotopes
leaves
oxygen
In 1698, after a fire destroyed an important government building in Jamestown, the capital was moved to the city of _____________________.
Richmond
Williamsburg
Cape Cod
