I saw an AP story on this in our local paper. Some of the US scholars
were not sure the English remains WERE Gosnold's sister because they
appeared to belong to a much younger woman. But with or without a DNA
match to the sister, they are pursuing a new lead in comparing the
mineral composition of the teeth in the Jamestown remains to the ground
water minerals in the area where Gosnold was born. Apparently those
minerals are absorbed in infancy and never go away. As evidence, it
would still be non-definitive, but it's better than nothing.
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Scientists row over Gosnold claim (UK, US)
Source: BBC News (3-22-06)
US experts claim that bones alleged to belong to a founder of the
country
are authentic and a skeleton buried in the UK, thought to be his sister,
is not.
The archaeologists in Virginia are arguing with UK experts over American
founding father Bartholomew Gosnold, born in Grundisburgh, Suffolk.
DNA tests revealed a skeleton buried in Suffolk is not related to the US
bones.
US experts claim they have the real Gosnold while UK scientists believe
the Suffolk skeleton is authentic.
The British experts believe the body buried at Shelley, Suffolk, is
Gosnold's sister, buried in the 1600s, and are casting doubts on the
American find.
Bartholomew Gosnold is said to have founded the first English-speaking
American colony in Virginia in 1607.
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