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Search continues for "Lost Colony"
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2008/06/06 - 22:47. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Archaeology | New WorldResearchers from the First Colony Foundation are gearing up to begin an extensive search for America's "Lost Colony." The project will be covered by the Time Team America program.
Alabama Welsh Society calls for the return of Madoc's historic marker
Submitted by Sabine Berard on Fri, 2008/05/16 - 17:50. 1101 CE to 1200 CE | Modern Society | New World | WelshThe Alabama Welsh Society wants a plaque reinstated marking the supposed arrival of Prince Madoc ap Owain in the U.S. three centuries before Columbus. The legend has it their two ships dropped anchor at what is now Mobile Bay, Alabama, in 1169 or 1170.
1600 volcano affected world climate
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2008/05/03 - 16:22. 1601 CE and Later | European | General Science | New WorldUC Davis geology professor Ken Verosub believes that a volcano which erupted in 1600 in Peru may have affected global weather, causing famine in Russia and a late wine harvest in France.
Canada's Red Bay Project proves Basque whalers visited Labrador in the 16th century
Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2008/04/28 - 21:22. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Nautical | New World | SpanishA new report by the Canadian government gives a detailed picture of Basque whaling and shipbuilding in 16th century Red Bay, Labrador. The report discusses artifacts discovered on the San Juan, a galeon sunk in 1565 and recently excavated.
Costuming sets the mood of historical films
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2008/04/04 - 18:49. 1601 CE and Later | Costuming | Media | New WorldAn article by David Ansen in the March 6 Newsweek Magazine on the latest costume dramas deals with the HBO mini-series John Adams and how costume sets the mood for a project.
Columbus may have spread "social disease"
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2008/02/05 - 10:42. 1401 CE to 1500 CE | European | Medicine | New WorldA new study claims that explorer Christopher Columbus may have been responsible for bringing syphilis to Europe. The controversial theory has been debated for years, but the new study of molecular genetics may show whether the theory is true.
Archaeologists explore 450 year old shipwreck off Florida
Submitted by Sabine Berard on Fri, 2007/12/14 - 23:35. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Archaeology | Nautical | New World | Spanish | Yahoo! NewsArchaeologists are studying the buried remains of a ship from a Spanish colonization fleet led by Don Tristan de Luna.
Archaeologists seek early Spanish evidence in Georgia
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2007/12/08 - 00:20. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Archaeology | New World | SpanishArchaeologists working on a dig in southern Telfair County, Georgia, believed they were looking for a 17th century Spanish mission. Instead they found something even more interesting: evidence of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto's 1540 travels through the state.
Plimoth Plantation embroidery blog
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007/11/22 - 14:26. 1601 CE and Later | New World | Textile ArtsA daily blog by members of the Plimoth Plantation's (Massachusetts) embroiders' guild shares notes and progress on a variety of early 17th century projects including the current one: an embroidered jacket.
The Nina tours the southern U.S.
Submitted by Milica on Wed, 2007/11/14 - 16:39. 1401 CE to 1500 CE | Exhibits | Nautical | New World | SpanishThe Nina, "the Most Historically Accurate Replica of a Columbus Ship Ever Built," will be touring the southern United States during November and December 2007. Tours are available.
16th century Spanish ship found off Florida coast
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2007/10/20 - 23:19. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Nautical | New World | SpanishDivers are examining the remains of a ship which sank off the coast of Pensacola, Florida during a hurricane in 1559. The ship is believed to be one of several Spanish ships sent to colonize the area. A previous ship was discovered 15 years ago.
Modern technology may help to locate "Lost Colony"
Submitted by Milica on Wed, 2007/10/10 - 10:16. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | English | New WorldResearchers such as George Ray hope that hard work and Google Maps may yet discover the fate of settlers of the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke in North Carolina, abandoned in the late 1500's.
Fire destroys "Lost Colony" costumes
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2007/09/21 - 10:23. 1601 CE and Later | Costuming | Modern Society | New WorldA fire recently destroyed the section of the Waterside Theatre in Roanoke Island, North Carolina which housed historic costumes in the Irene Rains Costume Shop. Most of the costumes for Paul Green's play, the Lost Colony, were destroyed.
DeSoto's Florida camp found
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2007/08/05 - 17:24. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Archaeology | New World | SpanishArchaeologists are studying what they believe are the remnants of conquistador Hernando de Soto's camp in Tallahasse, Florida abandoned in 1540. The site is near the modern state capitol.
Earliest gunshot victim found in Peru
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2007/07/27 - 16:08. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Armouring and Weaponsmithing | BBC News | General Science | New World | SpanishThe skull of what is believed to be the earliest gunshot victim in the western hemisphere has been discovered near Lima, Peru.
Early Mexicans liked spicy food
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007/07/19 - 13:14. 601 CE and Earlier | Cooking | New WorldScience Daily reports that chili peppers dating from between 490 and 780 C.E. have been discovered in a cave in Oaxaca Mexico. Experts believe that the plants were cultivated and used in early Mexican cuisine.
An Inca in Sarpsborg
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2007/07/08 - 19:28. 1001 CE to 1100 CE | Archaeology | New World | ScandanavianArchaeologists in Oestfold, Norway are trying to understand how an Inca Indian came to be buried in the Norwegian city in the 11th century.
"Lost" Roanoke settlers could be identified by DNA
Submitted by Milica on Wed, 2007/07/04 - 00:16. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | General Science | New WorldHistorians are hoping that science will help discover the fate of the settlers of Virginia's lost Roanoke colony. Using DNA and genealogy sources, they they hope to trace the genetics of those who might have survived.
Battle of Mauvilla site found
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007/06/28 - 11:08. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | New World | SpanishArchaeologist Andrew Holmes believes he has discovered the site of the Indian town of Mauvilla where Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto engaged local Indians in a massive battle. The town is near the forks of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers in southern Clarke County, Alabama.
John Smith, mapmaker
Submitted by Milica on Wed, 2007/06/27 - 19:00. 1601 CE and Later | Cartography | New WorldAmong his many talents, explorer and early Jamestown resident Captain John Smith could count mapmaking. A map created by Smith in 1608 of the Chesapeake Bay river system has been compared recently with modern maps and found to have a "stunning level of accuracy."
Yurts invade Canada
Submitted by Milica on Sun, 2007/06/03 - 15:53. New World | Photo Album | Russian | Tents and TentmakingThe Muhlberger's Early History website has a story about how yurts are now being manufactured and sold throughout Canada as cheap housing. (Photo)
Exhibit of 16th & 17th century art celebrates 400th anniversary of Jamestown
Submitted by Karen on Fri, 2007/05/11 - 17:21. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | 1601 CE and Later | English | Exhibits | Fine Arts | New World"Rule Britannia: Art, Royalty, & Power in the Age of Jamestown" -- featuring the "Armada" portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, never before been exhibited in the U.S. -- will be on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, through August 12.
Exhibit on New World maps now on display at the Chrysler
Submitted by Karen on Wed, 2007/04/25 - 12:08. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | 1601 CE and Later | Cartography | Exhibits | New World"Envisioning Virginia 1587-1784: Early Maps of the New World" will be on display at the Chrysler Museum of Art, in Norfolk, Virginia, through August 12.
America's only medieval church
Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2007/04/23 - 23:25. 1401 CE to 1500 CE | Christianity | New World | Places of Worship | Yahoo! NewsAccording to the research of the late historian Alwyn Ruddock, America's only medieval church may have been located in Newfoundland. Now University of Bristol researcher Evan Jones wants to use the notes to find the church purportedly built by an Italian friar in 1498.
American Catholics push for beatification of the Five Friars
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007/04/19 - 00:23. 1501 CE to 1600 CE | Christianity | New WorldRev. Conrad Harkins, representing the Catholic Diocese of Savannah, Georgia, made a trip to Rome recently carrying evidence he hopes will aid in the beatification of five Spanish missionaries martyred 410 years ago on the Georgia coast.
"Pathfinder" to hit theaters April 13, 2007
Submitted by Milica on Mon, 2007/04/02 - 14:48. Media | New World | ScandanavianPathfinder, a film starring Karl Urban, Moon Bloodgood and Clancy Brown, will open in theaters April 13, 2007. The adventure film tells the story of Vikings in North America.
Historic cooking seminar to be held at Virginia Tech
Submitted by Milica on Thu, 2007/03/15 - 14:32. 1601 CE and Later | Atlantia | Cooking | New WorldChairman Cynthia D. Bertelsen has announced that a seminar on historic cooking in Virginia will be held April 20-21, 2007 at the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. The event is titled "From Jamestown to the Blue Ridge: Cooking up 400 Years of Culinary History in Virginia."
"Henries Towne" settlement found near Virginia Beach
Submitted by Milica on Sat, 2007/02/03 - 18:10. 1601 CE and Later | Archaeology | New WorldArchaeologists working at a site on the Lynnhaven River in Virginia have discovered what they believe to be the remains of Henries Towne, a settlement contemporary with Jamestown.
400-year-old seeds help tell Jamestown story
Submitted by Milica on Fri, 2007/01/26 - 00:16. 1601 CE and Later | Agriculture | Archaeology | MSNBC | New WorldThe recent discovery of some 400-year-old seeds in a well at the Colonial Jamestown archaeological site has given researchers much to ponder about the life and survival skills of the early Jamestown settlers.
Jamestown 400th anniversary in 2007
Submitted by Milica on Tue, 2007/01/02 - 21:52. 1601 CE and Later | Nautical | New WorldFor six days in June of 2007, the residents of Norfolk, Virginia will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown Colony with "military, maritime and cultural activities" designed to showcase the best of the region.
