An ancient DNA (aDNA) study at the 17th-century English colony of Jamestown, Virginia, has identified two of the town's earliest settlers, and revealed an unexpected family secret. Founded in AD ...

launched a ten-year hunt for physical evidence of Jamestown’s origins and hired Kelso, who had excavated 17th-century sites near Williamsburg and was then conducting historical research at ...

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A collaborative National Park Service study of Virginia Indians during the 17th century, incorporating contemporary Native perspectives on Anglo-Indian interaction during this time period. Completed ...

The English who had settled in Jamestown and, over the rest of the 17th century, in the other British North American colonies soon reached a turning point. Would they continue to hire Europeans ...

When intern Erin Cullen unearthed a skull in a 17th-century cellar ... co-curator Douglas Owsley examining and early 18th-century burial in Jamestown, Virginia. Not only does Owsley solve the ...

Long before the establishment of Jamestown, English captains had made occasional profits in the rising trans-Atlantic slave trade. Bur during the early years of the 17th century, the English ...