Ancient DNA Finally Cracks Jamestown Settlers Mystery and Exposes Dark Secret!

#AncientDNAJamestown #JamestownDNAMystery #JamestownDarkSecret Ancient DNA Finally Cracks Jamestown Settlers Mystery and Exposes Dark Secret! Four coffins lay beneath the chancel of Jamestown's 1608 church for over 400 years. In 2013, archaeologists opened them. Ancient DNA from 2 of those skeletons shared an identical mitochondrial haplogroup, H10e, found in roughly 1 in 225,000 Europeans. The match implied a maternal kinship absent from every known genealogy. That single genetic clue led researchers to a 1616 English court record, and to a family secret that Jamestown's founders buried alongside their dead. Subscribe for more mind-blowing ancient history discoveries! 👉    / @originsrevealedyt   Core Research Paper: Owsley et al. (2024), Antiquity 98(400): 1040–1054 DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.75 PMC: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39697... Reich Lab PDF: https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/sites/r... Raw Data: European Nucleotide Archive (aligned sequences): https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/vie... Genotype datasets: https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/datasets Journal & Institutional Communications: Antiquity news release (16 Aug 2024): https://www.antiquity.ac.uk/news/2024... Cambridge Core blog (13 Aug 2024): https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2... Jamestown Rediscovery / Preservation Virginia: Chancel Burials overview: https://historicjamestowne.org/archae... 1608 Church history: https://historicjamestowne.org/archae... Forensics of the Chancel Burials: https://historicjamestowne.org/archae... Bioarchaeology at Jamestown: https://historicjamestowne.org/bioarc... Smithsonian Institution: Press release (identities revealed): https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/... Feature story: https://www.si.edu/stories/jamestown-... Science Journalism: CNN (23 Aug 2024): https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/sc... Phys.org (13 Aug 2024): https://phys.org/news/2024-08-jamesto... National Geographic (2015 original identification): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/ad... Official Project Publications (print, no open-access PDFs): Holy Ground: Archaeology, Religion, and the First Founders of Jamestown (2016): https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/b... Church & State: The Archaeology of the Foundations of Democracy 1619–2019 (2020): https://historicjamestowne.org/shop/b...