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  • Church Approves Jamestown DNA Removal

    04/23/2005 12:16:00 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies · 489+ views
    CNN ^ | April 21, 2005 | AP
    The Church of England on Wednesday gave permission for archeologists to dig under a church floor and remove DNA from 400-year-old skeletal remains to determine if the Jamestown settlement's founder was buried just outside the 17th century fort. The Church of England said archaeologists can dig under the floor of a church in Suffolk, England, to reach the skeleton of Elizabeth Tilney. She was the sister of Bartholomew Gosnold, a leader of the English expedition that founded Jamestown in 1607. To tell if a skeleton recovered from the site of the original Jamestown fort is Gosnold's, scientists need DNA from...