Parno said the site represents “the earliest Colonial archaeological site in Maryland,” and that it illustrates the first European colonization in the Chesapeake region. The fort was built soon after the colonists' arrival in 1634 AD, and the teenager’s body was found buried just outside of the fort’s walls.ĭr. Parno announced that his team had discovered the outline of the lost colonists fort, about 112.65 kilometres (70 miles) southeast of Washington, near the old Colonial capital of Maryland. Both ships were owned by the Calvert family, who were staunch English Catholics, and having this historical pedigree Parno described the discovery of the boy’s body as a "monumental discovery”.
It is thought that the boy might have sailed to America on The Ark or The Dove, which were the two ships used to transport the first settlers to the new colony of Maryland in March 1634. The structure of his face suggests he was European. Mary’s City, said the team of archaeologists believe the boy was one of Maryland’s first settlers in the New World. Travis Parno, director of research and collections for Historic St. The Washington Post A Monumental Discovery The researchers said the boy’s broken body had been “unceremoniously dumped” in his grave, with no shroud or coffin, and an article in the Washington Post says the teenager probably had “no family to mourn him”.Įxperts unearth one of the first colonists, a teen boy, who could have been aboard the first ships to land in Maryland in March 1634 It was later discovered that the boy had suffered a broken right leg and damaged ribs.įurthermore, the teenager’s right arm was stretched unnaturally across his chest while his left hand was clenched in a fist. They described the approximately 15-year-old boy as having been about 1.52 metres (5 ft) tall, with a square jaw. Smashed, And Dumped in The GroundĪccording to Live Science, the boy’s body was measured by biological anthropologist Kari Bruwelheide, and data management specialist Katie Barca, both of the Smithsonian Institution.
Then, last week, archaeologists unearthed the remains of the 17th-century adolescent boy at the site. A team of archaeologists were digging into what they believed was a fence-post hole, when they came upon the lower legs of a skeleton. This story begins in 1992 at an excavation site in St. It is believed that this teenager, who was buried with a shattered leg and no coffin, was possibly a passenger on one of the first ships to land in Maryland in March 1634 AD, making him one of the earliest colonists in the New World. has been discovered in a ‘haphazard’ burial in Maryland. The skeleton of one of the first colonists in the U.S.
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