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  • Jamestown unearths 400-year-old pipes for patrons (tobacco pipes)

    12/31/2010 7:44:44 PM PST · by decimon · 16 replies
    Associated Press ^ | December 31, 2010 | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM
    RICHMOND, Va. – Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who's who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America's first permanent English settlement. > "It really brings the people back into the picture," said Bly Straube, senior archaeological curator for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project. "We have a lot of artifacts that we can associate with types of people like gentleman or women or children, but to find things like the pipe that bears the name Sir Walter Raleigh, I mean, my goodness. ... It just...