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Mary Rose Crew Members Examined The Guardian reports that a team of researchers from Cardiff University, the Mary Rose Trust, HM Naval Base, and the British Geological Survey’s National Environmental Isotope Facility examined the remains of eight sailors recovered from the wreckage of Mary Rose, a Tudor warship that sank in the Solent on July 19, 1545, in a battle with French ships. The positions of the remains in the wreckage, and artifacts found near them, suggest they included an officer, an archer, a royal archer, a carpenter, a gentleman, a cook, and a purser. Multi-isotope analysis of the sailors’ teeth indicates three of these sailors were not British. Two may have grown up in southern Europe, and the third in North Africa perhaps in southern Tunisia, the Atlas Mountains, or Morocco. The researchers concluded that the Tudor navy may have been more diverse than previously thought. Read the original scholarly article about this research in ....
) After 437 years lying on the murky-dark in the sea of the south coast of England, in 1982 the remains of the Mary Rose and her 19,000 artifacts were recovered. She is now displayed in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard . Dr. Alexzandra Hildred, from the Mary Rose Trust , said that over the years a number of artifacts recovered from the wreck were found that “were not” manufactured by English craftspeople, a discovery which led archaeologists to consider that perhaps some of the crew were foreign. As part of the study of the study of the remains of eight members of the Mary Rose crew, researchers have examined their bones to try to reconstruct their biographies. ( ....
Cardiff University The biographies of eight crew found among the remains of the Tudor warship Mary Rose have been revealed using the latest archaeological methods. Cardiff University academics, in partnership with the Mary Rose Trust and the British Geological Survey, used cutting edge scientific techniques to reveal the ancestry, childhood origins and diets of some of the crew who perished on the ship in 1545 AD. This information has been used to explore where, in Britain and beyond, they were raised. Data suggests as many as three of the eight crew in the study may have originated from warmer, more southerly climates than Britain, such as southern European coasts, Iberia and North Africa. Researchers say the remaining five crew members were likely to have been brought up in western Britain, with further analysis suggesting one of these men was of African ancestry. ....
The team say the discovery, made using modern archaeological methods, shows the contributions people from diverse backgrounds made to Tudor society. ....