The Lost Colony and Jamestown droughts

Science

Volumn 280, Issue 5363, 1998, Pages 564-567

  Stahle, David W ^a   Cleaveland, Malcolm K ^a   Blanton, Dennis B ^b   Therrell, Matthew D ^a   Gay, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COLONIAL SOCIETY; DROUGHT; MORTALITY TRENDS;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGY; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

CLIMATE; FRESH WATER; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTERS; NUTRITION DISORDERS; STARVATION; VIRGINIA;

USA, VIRGINIA, JAMESTOWN;

EID: 0032562587     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5363.564     Document Type: Article

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22. We thank G. M. Williamson, T. P. Harlan, and J. Young; the landowners B. Phillips and J. F. Johnson III; and the Kirk Lumber Company for assisting the protection of the ancient baldcypress trees on the Pompeii Tract at Blackwater River. Supported by the National Science Foundation, Paleoclimatology Program (grant ATM-9528148), and The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, with support from the National Park Service. The observed and reconstructed July PHDI may be obtained from the National Geophysical Data Center at ftp://ftp.ngdc. noaa.gov/paleo/treering/reconstructions/jamestown-roanoke/