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The Lost Colony: Sir Walter Raleigh's brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, attempted an English settlement in North America first. He made landfall in Nova Scotia and sailed down the coast, searching for possible settlement locations. His expedition was met with constant storms...; By William M. Wisser.

The Lost Colony: In Sir Walter Raleigh and South America, page 3; Sir Walter Raleigh's brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, attempted to establish an English settlement in North America first. He made landfall in Nova Scotia and sailed down the coast, searching for possible settlement locations. His expedition met constant storms...; By William M. Wisser.

Estuaries in North Carolina: A primer: Estuaries are places near the coast where freshwater and saltwater mix. Influenced by ocean forces yet partly sheltered from them, estuaries have unique and fascinating ecologies. This article explains what estuaries are, their geology and role in the larger...; By Waverly Harrell and Jennifer Godwin-Wyer.

Stratigraphy and cross-dating: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.3; Students will use an activity sheet to interpret archaeological strata using the law of superposition and apply cross-dating to determine the age of other artifacts.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Science)

Inference by analogy: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.12; Students will use historical sources and an archaeological site map to infer the use or meaning of items recovered from a North Carolina Native American site based on 17th-century European settlers' accounts and illustrations. They will also describe prehistoric lifeways based on archaeological and ethnohistoric information and explain why archaeologists use ethnohistoric analogy.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

Language families: In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.7; Students will identify and locate the three language families of contact period North Carolina and calculate the physical area covered by each language family.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)

North Carolina place names: In Intrigue of the Past, page 4.8; This lesson contrasts and compares the names that Native Americans living in North Carolina gave to their villages and places with the names that European and other settlers gave to theirs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)

Archaeological sites open to the public: A listing of field trip opportunities focusing on Native Americans as well as colonial times in North Carolina. Organized by county.; Format: article

The pottery makers: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.4; Archaeologists do a bit of shrugging when asked about the Woodland—that time and lifeway tucked between 1000 BC and AD 1000. Some things they readily understand, but others leave them wondering.

The village farmers: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.5; North Carolina sat on a crossroads by AD 1000. Cultural ideas from other places breezed through it and around it: how to decorate pottery, how to orient political and social life, how to honor the dead, how to structure towns.

Fort Raleigh and the Lost Colony: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.3; England's first two settlements in the New World differed in character and purpose: The first short-lived colony, inhabited entirely by men, was set up as a stake in the newly discovered Americas and a base of privateering against French and Spanish shipping. The second was intended as a permanent colony and was settled by men, women and children. Their disappearance is a mystery that remains unsolved nearly 400 years later.; Format: article

Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony: Fact and legend: In 1587, a group of British citizens set up a colony on Roanoke Island in hopes of establishing the first permanent English settlement in the New World. The colony's governor sailed to England and returned three years later to find the rest of the colonists had vanished. Myths and legends have arisen attempting to explain the mystery of the Lost Colony. In one legend, the governor's granddaughter is transformed into a white doe by a jealous Indian witch-doctor.; Format: article

Fort Raleigh: Earthworks and entrance to fort: A reconstruction of the earthen fort built by the first European settlers of Roanoke Island in 1585. The fort is the only structure from the Roanoke settlement whose location has been located exactly. After intensive archaeological studies and excavation from...; Format: image/photograph

Fort Raleigh: Earthworks: A reconstruction of the earthen fort built by the first European settlers of Roanoke Island in 1585. The fort is the only structure from the Roanoke settlement whose location has been located exactly. After intensive archaeological studies and excavation from...; Format: image/photograph

Fort Raleigh: Earthworks and palisade: A reconstruction of the earthen fort built by the first European settlers of Roanoke Island in 1585. A palisade is visible atop the earthworks. A sign reads "Fragile Earthenworks -- Please Do Not Climb." The fort is the only structure from the Roanoke settlement...; Format: image/photograph

Fort Raleigh: Closeup of earthworks and palisade: A reconstruction of the earthen fort built by the first European settlers of Roanoke Island in 1585. A palisade is visible to the left of the entrance to the fort. A sign reads "Fragile Earthenworks -- Please Do Not Climb." The fort is the only structure from...; Format: image/photograph

Fort Raleigh: Interior of fort: A reconstruction of the earthen fort built by the first European settlers of Roanoke Island in 1585. This photograph shows the interior of the fort, taken from the entrance. The fort is the only structure from the Roanoke settlement whose location has been...; Format: image/photograph

Virginia Dare statue: This statue, created by Maria Louisa Lander in 1859, depicts Lander's vision of Virginia Dare as an adult. Of course, because Virginia Dare was one of the vanished members of the Lost Colony, nobody knows what she looked like as an adult—or whether she...; Format: image/photograph

Amadas and Barlowe explore the Outer Banks: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.5; On April 27, 1584, Captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe left the west coast of England in two ships to explore the North American coast for Sir Walter Raleigh. The party of explorers landed on July 13, 1584, on the North Carolina coast just north of Roanoke Island, and claimed the land in the name of Queen Elizabeth. Captain Barlowe's report describes the land and the people he encountered.; Format: journal

The search for the Lost Colony: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.4; No one knows what happened to the “Lost Colonists” of Roanoke Island -- but that has only made their story more interesting. Over the past 400 years, historians, archaeologists, storytellers, and outright liars have developed a number of theories about the vanished settlers.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

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