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🔴 **Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia**

"_Genomic analyses of the skeletons identify unexpected maternal relatedness as both carried the mitochondrial haplogroup H10e. In this unusual case, aDNA prompted further historical research that led to the discovery of illegitimacy in the West family, an aspect of identity omitted, likely intentionally, from genealogical records._"

Owsley, D.W. et al. (2024) ‘Historical and archaeogenomic identification of high-status Englishmen at Jamestown, Virginia’, Antiquity, pp. 1–15. doi: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.75.

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