The Georgia coast: Guale mission burials under study, with consultation (St. Catherines Island, Georgia; 2019)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 2019 · Places: Georgia, Mexico, Europe
SUMMARYThe Georgia coast: Guale mission burials under study, with consultation (St. Catherines Island, Georgia; 2019) [Connections: Genetics (honest), Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDUConn Today (March 2019) describes Deborah Bolnick's ancient-DNA project on St. Catherines Island, site of the Spanish Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, studying the effects of Spanish missionization on the Guale people in the 16th and 17th centuries, in a contamination-controlled clean room. For the Fallen Tree site, exposed by erosion in 2013: "Following consultation with appropriate Indigenous representatives, the St. Catherines Island Foundation partnered with multiple research groups."
PATTERNthe coastal Southeast, the Gullah/Geechee homeland, has ancient-DNA work under way among the Guale, the people whose land the Sea Islands are
LENS (WW9)the Guale coast and the Geechee coast are the same coast
OPENneeds deep research: whether the Guale results have been published, and whether anyone compared them with Gullah/Geechee families (the 2021 Gullah study used a Mexican reference)