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.