certainly not the current one as it is post Revolutionary War, according to what I have read ( i am certainly not a linguist).SO glad I found your blog...I passed out 5 minutes into this re-airing at 10 last night....guess that said it all....I keep wondering why I keep letting myself get "worked up" over shows like this. Smith, whose charter in the colony included looking for the Roanoke settlers, identified and mapped an area in his journals where Native Americans told him they had seen other English settlers.
Also her mother was the author of the stone. The later laboratory analyses also confirmed it is a vein containing elevated amounts of gold, selenium and, most important, copper. : back cover The colonists were last seen on Roanoke Island (off the coast of what is now North Carolina) in August 1587, and the mystery of their disappearance has since become a part of American folklore. For example, he carried the stone to a geology lab at the University of North Carolina in Asheville for preliminary sampling and preparation of samples for more detailed chemical and mineral analyses.
6, 2018 , 11:50 AM. The independent laboratory he used for the Dare Stone analyses also evaluated the Virginia samples. A show linking these brothers with Scott Wolter and hell tie in the Laginas and oak island!You'll be glad to hear Hoax Island is sucking cash out of advertising budgets 3+ years later! At an accelerated rate, I understand. Can you say DVR and fast forward? Naturally, we would be thrilled to help uncover that Brenau University owns perhaps the most significant artifact in pre-colonial American history. I always feel that if a network is willing to air a show, then it must have some credence. In October of 2015, the History Channel broadcast a documentary in which Jim and Bill Vieira, who came to prominence on the channel in a series documenting their fruitless search for Nephilim-giants, evaluated whether the so-called Dare Stones were genuine artifacts of the Roanoke colonists’ dramatic flight from a bloodthirsty tribe of Native Americans as they escaped into the heart of Georgia. It would have been less distracting, even if it is no less inaccurate.Jason's discrediting remark about "old white men" brands him as a petty (and perhaps racist). “But it is just a beginning.
I'm sure they could have found somebody that could have tied it all together.Would you rather a documentary be accurate, well researched and guided by validly credentialed experts, or is simply brilliant and engaging enough for you Brent?The repetitions reminded me of the Hoax Island episodes.Aah, I should have read the whole comments section. I would expect that people with money and resources might have researched it, or, barring that, followed convention and used the sort of standard Hollywood British accent that represents "historical" and/or "foreign" speech in movies. 4.6 out of 5 stars 6 ratings. Can you believe they actually give Native Americans credit for mining copper. They could have then mined the stone for magnetite and made a compass.I guess accurate and engaging is to much to hope for these days.I apologize if this has been addressed above. The Vieras collected rock samples of quartz outcrops near abandoned 19th century copper prospect pits and sent them to Schrader. Expert stonemasons Jim and Bill Vieira team up with maverick archaeologist Fred Willard to investigate the … on yet, maybe next year. $24.98 . the Brits of the 16th century did not speak in modern English accents. But you? Pronunciation back then was weird, too. Yes it was at times overly dramatic, contained a fair amount of bull and was at times both hokey and/or obnoxiously certain of itself but it was an interesting journey to go on and despite their flaws I do enjoy the Vieira brothers.Doubtless there is dead air time on this show (and shows similar to it.) James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke (New York, 2010). Now, a mysterious stone inscription may lead to uncovering the truth. Tougher to do, but surely you're capable.Like I always say, Black Library Cards Matter.Smith likely spoke with an East Midlands accent, quite different from the pronunciation of Shakespeare's London.Beats the heck out of me. The History Channel is the place to be on Sunday night for the premiere of Return to Roanoke: Search for the Seven.The network will be diving … Guess they haven't had Giorgio (?) John Smith of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony that was established about 20 years after Roanoke.They settled on an area in southern Virginia about 60 miles upriver from the site near Edenton, North Carolina, where the first stone is reported to have turned up. For over 400 years, the disappearance of 117 colonists from Roanoke Island has been America's oldest mystery.
History Channel's 'Maverick Archaeologist' Fred Willard Dead: Frederick Lawson Willard, of the History Channel's famous "Roanoke: Search for the Lost Colony" mini-series, died at 4:15 PM on October 17, 2017, at the age of 77. Old white men? Paul E. Hoffman, A New Andulucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast during the Sixteenth Century (Baton Rouge, La., 1990).