May
14
/ 2023
The skeleton of one of the first colonists in the U.S. has been discovered in a ‘haphazard’ burial in Maryland. 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 . This story begins in 1992 at an excavation site in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, U.S.A. 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. Then, last week, archaeologists unearthed the remains of the 17th-century adolescent boy at the site
