Interview with Scott Dawson, Croatoan Archaeological Society

Into the Dust Archaeology

Following his site visits to the Outer Banks, Jason visited with Scott Dawson, head of the Croatoan Archaeological Society, whose passion for the history of his Croatoan ancestors led to a lifelong passion to find set the history of the Outer Banks - and hence the United States of America as a nation - right.
At the center of this story is the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke myth, in which colonists simply disappeared, perhaps massacred or enslaved by the local Native Americans. The truth, as is being revealed by Dawson's historical research and community-led archaeology, is far different from this standard version of history...