Not sure if srs, but Lost Colony found?!?!?

[Bronn]

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/usa-archaeologists-discover-remains-of-first-british-settlers-in-north-america/

 

Interesting if true... Can't really find any other sources during a quick google.

 

 

The female skeleton has been identified thanks to DNA testing, as Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the Americas. The DNA of the skeleton which was found in October, was compared to that of modern day descendants of Governor John White, her grandfather. The test confirmed that the bones were indeed with more than 99.8% certainty, those of Ms. Dare. Four of the others corpses have also been identified through the same process by the scientists, including that of the girl’s father Ananias Dare, a tiler and bricklayer from London.

[PandaPancake]

The lost colony was figured out years ago.

[thefuzz]

There is a Laurens county in NC?

[Bronn]

There is a Laurens county in NC?

 

Some people in the comments questioned that as well... Not sure if it was a typo or if the story is even real, but I haven't seen anything that makes me think it isn't so far... Kind of a badly edited story though...

[Ja Rhule]

I watched bio on lost colony the other week.  Apparently there are 2 theories:  1).  Natives killed them all and that was the fact for over 400 years because this was a confession of one tribeman leaders.  2). Lost colony was accepted into tribe because years later they discovered native americans with blonde hair and green eyes.  To this day no one knows what really happened to the colony.

[Bronn]

According to the story, the theory now is that they were captured and sold into slavery by the Native Americans.

 

[Ja Rhule]

According to the story, the theory now is that they were captured and sold into slavery by the Native Americans.

 

 

Yea, but there is absolutely no proof of that.

 

There are so many stories and theories that some even contradict each other.  The common tactic back in the day for big colonies was to split up in case of disaster.  Smaller groups had higher chance of surviving than a large group.

 

It is very likely that colony split up into 10-15 groups and it's likely that some theories are correct.

[Ja Rhule]

Actually after watching The Lost Colony documentary the other week, instead of going somewhere like Virgin Islands or Hawaii, I told my wife I want us to rent a house for a week or 2 somewhere near Roanoke Island.

[PhillyB]

dna studies inconclusive but one of the most popular hypotheses is that the settlers moved inland and intermarried with the natives.

 

anyway the article looks suspect, i searched for professor william j monroe and found nothing, and the only hits on the keywords come from somethingawful and a few other obvious spam/joke sites, so i don't think this is accurate. i follow a number of archaeological news outlets and none of them have mentioned this, so either they're slacking, i'm slacking, or this is bullshit.