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By the 1990s with the advances in radiocarbon dating taking place and more samples tracking the spread across the Polynesian islands, including New Zealand archaeologists found significant support for a late colonization of the eastern Polynesian islands, suggesting Hawai'i, like New Zealand was colonized around 1000-1200 AD.
Roanoke Island (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k /) is an island in Dare County, bordered by the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It was named after the historical Roanoke , a Carolina Algonquian people who inhabited the area in the 16th century at the time of English colonization .
The Roanoke Colony (/ ˈ r oʊ ə n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded in 1585, but when it was visited by a ship in 1590, the colonists had inexplicably disappeared.
The DNA analysis will be performed by Othram Inc.” According to the Mayor’s Office, the remains in question were recovered over the past two decades—specifically, between 2000 and 2015.
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The second colony was intended to settle in Chesapeake Bay, but instead was deposited on Roanoke Island. The colonists requested that White return to England, with the expectation that he would come back to Roanoke with fresh supplies in 1588. [5] When White finally returned in 1590, the site of the colony was abandoned. [6]
The DNA work represented a major development in a case that made headlines last year when Albert “Ian” S ... Dana Ireland's body was found on Christmas Eve in 1991 on Hawaii's Big Island ...
DNA Doe Project stumped by the case of a man found dead in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 1987, asks the public to help. Researchers want DNA of 4 families to help solve mystery of body found in ...