The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a ...

Even the word “Croatoan” — the original name of Hatteras Island and the Native American tribe who lived there ... numerous weapons and European artifacts on Hatteras Island.

The haul is one of the New World’s few troves of arguably Elizabethan artifacts ... CROATOAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Throughout colonial North America, most of the English captured by Indians ...

It either referred to Croatoan Island, which is now called Hatteras Island, or the Croatoan Indians. The mystery has haunted Americans and Brits for the past four centuries, with several ...

Each trip turns up thousands of artifacts including coins ... 38, founder of the Croatoan Archaeological Society. “What else do you need? There is this mountain of archaeology.” ...

As usual, the state first required a search for historically significant sites or artifacts ... the word “Croatoan” carved in a post and CRO carved into a tree. The Croatoan tribe lived ...

Scott Dawson, the president of the Croatoan Archaeological Society who runs The Lost Colony Museum, believes a recent ...

After facing criticism, the University of California, Berkeley is working to repatriate many of those artifacts ... cultural institutions and Native tribes, even as laws and practices have ...