Archaeologists work at the site of Jamestown burial excavations in November 2013. (Smithsonian Institution / Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation) A team of archaeologists and historians announced on Tuesday that they’ve identified the remains of four prominent men who died at Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America, between 1608 and 1616—extraordinary news made even more intriguing by the discovery of a relic that suggests there were Catholics secretly living among the Protestants there.