Publication Date:
1998-05-09
Description:
Tree-ring data from Virginia indicate that the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island disappeared during the most extreme drought in 800 years (1587-1589) and that the alarming mortality and the near abandonment of Jamestown Colony occurred during the driest 7-year episode in 770 years (1606-1612). These extraordinary droughts can now be implicated in the fate of the Lost Colony and in the appalling death rate during the early occupations at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stahle, D W -- Cleaveland, M K -- Blanton, D B -- Therrell, M D -- Gay, D A -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Apr 24;280(5363):564-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Tree-Ring Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. dstahle@comp.uark.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9554842" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Climate
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Disasters/*history
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Fresh Water
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History, 16th Century
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History, 17th Century
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Humans
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*Mortality
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Nutrition Disorders/history
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Starvation/history
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Virginia
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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