Originally published at: Remains unearthed of one of America's first colonists, a teenage boy | Boing Boing
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Interestingly, it isn’t the body that was newly found, but the fort, giving the body context.
Parno said part of the burial was discovered in 1992 by accident. Earlier archaeologists, digging into what they thought was a fence-post hole, came upon the skeleton’s lower legs.
But the fort had yet to be located, and it wasn’t clear what the burial represented, he said. The earlier archaeologists filled in the grave to protect it from curious passersby.
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In before the “Irish slave” brigade arrive.
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Experts unearth one of the first colonists
The 250,000 Spaniards who had migrated to the Americas by the time any White settlers arrived in Virginia might have a different take on “one of the first.”
“Remains unearthed of one of the first White British colonists in North America” would be more accurate.
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British is correct.
“1541 - Cartier builds the Charlesbourg-Royal fort, the first permanent European settlement in North America, near the confluence of the Rivière du Cap Rouge with the St. Lawrence.”
Give the boy his due, I think he still has a claim to be “one of”, since the numbers were tiny at that time.
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Yes. The “British” was my addition. The WaPo article is more accurate than the tweet. It reads:
they were looking at one of Maryland’s first European settlers — and one of the first colonists in what would become the United States.
The tweet reads:
Experts unearth one of the first colonists
which is incorrect, as is Ruben’s headline.
ETA: Misspleddings
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