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400-year-old seeds help tell Jamestown story

Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2007/01/26 - 00:16. 1601 CE and Later | Agriculture | Archaeology | MSNBC | New World
The recent discovery of some 400-year-old seeds in a well at the Colonial Jamestown archaeological site has given researchers much to ponder about the life and survival skills of the early Jamestown settlers.

Among those found in the well were tobacco seeds believed to be the earliest attempts to cultivate the plant. "It's not a mega-breakthrough into the history" of Jamestown, William Kelso, director of archaeology at the Historic Jamestowne site, said Tuesday. "But I think it does show the old story that they were gentlemen here who didn't have a clue how to survive in the wilderness...that's not the whole story. It was a mix."

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