Ivor Noel Hume
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Ivor Noel Hume is a British born archaeologist and author. He studied at Farmingham College and St. Lawrence College in England before joining the staff of Guildhall Museum in London in 1949. He became chief archeologist of Colonial Williamsburg in 1957, and has subsequently become the director of the Williamsburg Department of Archeology. He has written many popular books on archaeology, such as Archeology in Britain, Here Lies Virginia, Martin's Hundred, and The Virginia Adventure.
A proponent of processualism, Hume initially began as a curator in the construction of the historical archeological site of Jamestown, Virginia, first settled in 1607.

