YA Best books NF

Walker, Sally M. (2009)  Written in Bone:  Buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland.  Carolrboda Books.  5Q, 4P MJS

The excavations begin in Jamestown, Maryland dating from the 1600's by archeologist and forensic anthropologists who try to understand how the people of that time and era lived, under what conditions and how they died.  Sometimes the archeologist find more than one person in a grave and sometimes they find the arrowhead still lodged in a femur raising the question of cause of death.  From the bones the scientist can determine the age and sex of the person and sometimes a possible cause of death.  Throughout the book there are pictures from the actual excavations.  A great book for a history buff, budding archeologist, or forensic scientist.