Shipwreck may hold key to Turks and Caicos' lineage

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 21:49 in Paleontology & Archaeology

MIAMI (Reuters) - A pair of glass-eyed idols led marine archeologists to the wreck of a Spanish ship that once carried an illegal cargo of African slaves believed to be the ancestors of many of today's inhabitants of the British colony of Turks and Caicos.

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