re: Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke apparently definitively solved

Yeah it's definitely solved.

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DEFINITELY maybe solved.

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All of you smart asses need to look up the difference between:

definitely

and

definitively

I love the redneck that was selling fake carved stones

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apparently definitively solved?

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It was solved a long time ago but I guess some were still skeptical.

A hundred or so European settlers don’t just blend into a local native tribe and become unrecognizable. Either White and company were incredibly lazy in their search efforts or there was other motivations. I’m guessing the settlement and its inhabitants had been insured to some degree to secure funding for the venture. It would have been in Gov White and his backers interest to say the settlers mysteriously disappeared. They would have lost their arse if they’d acknowledged the settlers abandoned the colony and moved in with the natives population.

For the settlers, they’d already assimilated in with the natives and probably weren’t eager to upend their lives again and assimilate back with the English who’d essentially left them to fend for themselves for 3 years.

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By the mid 1600s, NC was becoming well settled by Europeans. A few of those colonists could still have been alive, and certainly their children and grandchildren. Did none of those tribespeople say, yes, my grandparents told me of how they came from across the water? If this is what happened, the mystery should have been solved hundreds of years ago.

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Those people were either killed off, or went off in search of a better spot and died in the woods during the trek. Any significant "merging" of people in a friendly sense would leave abundant evidence. There are still people in Afghanistan that look like Alexandar's Greeks, for fricks sake. Surely if the colonists merged with the local tribe we'd have seen evidence long before now. Those people died off, one way or the other.

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There are still people in Afghanistan that look like Alexandar's Greeks, for fricks sake.

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Genetic studies on the Kalash people haven’t supported this claim.

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More than likely killed off or enslaved the men and bred TF out of the women until the genetics blended away

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And thus the bizarre OT cuck fixation lives on.

Well if the squaws looked the Indian women in 1883, would've been easy to join

Chief Powhatan said he attacked the group and killed most of the them.

The survivors were likely enslaved including to do or teach forging which matched rumors of English slaves back then. The attackers could have sold off some to other tribes and didn’t necessarily enslave all of the survivors themselves.

There may have been a few women and/or children that just became part of the tribe though brought by force initially, but most of the colony murdered followed by the amount enslaved.

The English had visited that island before, so besides the forging done enslaved survivors the English could have done some while visiting.