Skeletons From 400-Year-Old Gravesite Identified As Jamestown Leaders
In 2013 , an archaeological dig in America ’s first dependency of Jamestown , Virginia , reveal four skeleton at a 1608 church ( the one where Pocahontas espouse John Rolfe ) . Now , after combine skeletal analysis , chemical substance testing , context cues , and genealogic work , a team of researchers has bring out the identities of the four badly - preserve remains : They belong to to colony founders and drawing card who sailed across the Atlantic , according to an declaration made at theSmithsonian Institution ’s National Museum of Natural Historythis week ....