, but dr. kelso>> well, i came to the spot on a tour with a park ranger, and i saw an exposed bank with where you could see the soil layers and one of them was a dark l layerrier. there were artifacts sticking out. and i was not an arkle yol gist at the time, and i said, that is pretty cool. so i asked the ranger where where is the fort? he said, it is washed into the river. and i said what about the ark? he could not answer me. >> without you you toing that, would it be found? >> no, there was a feeling of don't disturb the past. >> but you had a different feeling? >> yes, i thought it was time to catch the brass ring. >> and that decision to deep dig deeper is to link into the past. and now dr. kelso is part of the jamestown proskwekt y. he is in a project to find out what happened here with those men who landed here four centuries ago. his goal is to bring it back to the early 1600s. >> bring us back to the early people who arrived here in 1607, and who were they and why did they come? >> well, th

dr. kelso is now the director of research at the jamestown rediscovery project.hat for the last three decades has uncovered the mystery off jamestown a and the men who landed on these shores more than 400 years ago. the archeological dig essentially recreates jamestown as it was in the early 1600s. bring us back to the very first people who arrived here. in 1607. who were they? why did they come? >> there were 104 that made it to d jamestown, to be settlers,o bere actually living here. they thought this was a land of gold and silver. they really believed that. >> they would soon learn their very existencece in the new wor faced many threats. and instead of the land of gold and silver, it was the land of disease, starvation and death. >> most were dying of hunger. it took them five months to get here instead of five weeks, like they had planned. they used t up their provisions along the way. >> the>> colonists were drinkin water from the jamestown river which in the spring runs clear and wafresh, but as the day wea on, the salt in the water strengthens. many fell