"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows what it means... It's no secret. We know the real story." In 1585, English ...

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 ...

To understand how remarkable this discovery of Roanoke artifacts ... “Croatoan” carved into a fort’s gatepost and the word “Cro” etched into a tree. The Croatoans were a purportedly ...

Scott Dawson, the president of the Croatoan Archaeological Society who runs The Lost Colony Museum, believes a recent discovery reinforces research that the Lost Colony relocated to Hatteras Island.

The settlers, who arrived in 1587, disappeared in 1590, leaving behind only two clues: the words "Croatoan ... American tribes. Previous digs have turned up some information and artifacts from ...

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 ...