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Remains of 4 early colonial leaders discovered at Jamestown

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Remains of 4 early colonial leaders discovered at Jamestown

Post by Rowan » Tue July 28th, 2015, 4:58 pm

I'm surprised so much archaeology hasn't been done in the US, or other places for that matter, but then I remember that it's all about funding which is hard to come by in the best of times.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Archaeologists have uncovered human remains of four of the earliest leaders of the English colony that would become America, buried for more than 400 years near the altar of what was America's first Protestant church in Jamestown, Virginia.

The four burial sites were uncovered in the floor of what's left of Jamestown's historic Anglican church from 1608, a team of scientists and historians announced Tuesday. The site is the same church where Pocahontas famously married Englishman John Rolfe, leading to peace between the Powhatan Indians and colonists at the first permanent English settlement in America.

Beyond the human remains, archaeologists also found artifacts buried with the colonial leaders — including a mysterious Catholic container for holy relics found in the Protestant church.
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