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VIRTUALISATION Bones of Columbus' crew analyzed with surprising results
VIRTUALISATION Bones of Columbus' crew analyzed with surprising results | Bones of Columbus' crew analyzed with surprising results |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Monday, 23 March 2009 | |
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According to the March 19, 2009 University of Wisconsin News article “Teeth of Columbus’s crew flesh out tale of new world discovery,” the skeletons of crewmembers from Columbus’ second voyage were dug up in La Isabela, on the island of Hispaniola, in 1990 by archaeologists from Italy and the Dominican Republic. Christopher Columbus’ second voyage occurred from 1493 to 1494 and consisted of seventeen sailing ships. Hispaniola, which is the site of the first European settlement in the New World (what is now known as the Americas), is now a part of the Dominican Republic. American archaeologist T. Douglas Price, of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, leads a team of researchers in analyzing the skeletons of these early explorers to the Americas. They are doing a chemical isotopic analysis involving elemental carbon, oxygen, and strontium within the bones, which is detailing the history of these men. The information is providing new details of their childhood, foods eaten, and other such information. The team consists of Price, along with James T. Burton (also of the University of Wisconsin), and Vera Tiesler and Andrea Cucina (both of the Autonomous University of the Yucatan, Mexico). Page two continues with information from the study. |
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