Archaeologist and social historian Ivor Noel Hume brings British history to life through his accessible story about the everyday ceramic objects he and his first wife collected over a 40-year period.
In The Virginia Adventure, Noel Hume turns his attention to the two earliest English settlements in Virginia, Roanoke and James Towne, with fascinating results. Combining information gathered through
Cited in virtually every Colonial-era site study of North America, A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America holds a place of honor among historical archaeologists. It is a classic, highly sought afte
"Nodl Hume is a household name. This book should be a professional classic, to be read alongside other memoirs like those of Graham Clark, Glyn Daniel, Gertrude Caton-Thompson, and Mortimer Wheeler. T
"Here is a story of naivete, ambition, duplicity, avarice, and poverty...." So states Noel (former director, Colonial Williamsburg's archaeological research program) in his prologue. Belzoni (1778-182
One person's trash is another's treasure! In his newly revised classic, All the Best Rubbish, Ivor NoEl Hume traces the fascinating history of collecting from its recorded beginnings and describes the
The author describes his archeological excavation of a seventeenth-century English settlement in Virginia and his discovery of evidence of the early colonial way of life
