[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Sean Kingsley reports on ongoing discoveries related to the history of the Lucayans. He says, “Spanish colonizers enslaved the Lucayans, putting an end to their lineage by 1530.” Read full article at Smithsonian. When the Reverend Theophilus Pugh heard about a mysterious wooden stool discovered…
DNA that appears to be from descendants of these long-vanished canines has turned up at the Jamestown colonial site in Virginia, where starving settlers may have eaten them, experts at Jamestown and the University of Iowa said this month.