"It's funny that people still pretend that the colonists carved a mysterious word on a tree — 'Croatoan' — and no one knows ...

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 ...

an archaeologist claimed to find artifacts related to the missing colonists on modern Hatteras Island, some 50 miles south of Roanoke—then Croatoan island, home of the Croatoan tribe ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...