[Rockhounds] Roman oil lamp excavated from 17th-Century Jamestown, Virginia, site

[Paul]

This is an interesting story about how and why Old World artifacts
can move around the world.

Lapp, E.C., 2022. A Curious Artifact: The Changing Meaning
of the Roman Oil Lamp from 17th-Century Jamestown, Virginia.
American Journal of Archaeology, 126(3), pp.411-423.

Abstract: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/719422
PDF file: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/719422

They also found Miocene shark teeth at Jamestown that had
been locally collected.

Yours,

Paul H,