Fort Raleigh, North Carolina
Wednesday, July 8, 8 pm
In the series premiere, TIME TEAM AMERICA goes in search of the nation's mysterious roots at Roanoke Island. In 1586, the English sent the first group of hardy, hopeful colonists to the New World. When English ships returned with supplies just three years later, they found the settlement empty and the colonists gone. The fate of the Roanoke colonists remains one of the most chilling and maddening questions of American history.
Topper, South Carolina
Wednesday, July 15, 8 pm
Wade into the swamps of South Carolina to find the truth about North America's first human inhabitants. Experts debate when people first came to this land. Did they follow big game across the continent 15,000 years ago or did they arrive much, much earlier? TIME TEAM AMERICA has three days to search for evidence that could shed light on the controversy. What they find could rock the archaeological world.
New Philadelphia, Illinois
Wednesday, July 22, 8 pm
The team digs for the remains of the first American town founded by freed slaves and joins in the search for the remains of the schoolhouse where New Philadelphia's black children learned to read and write in freedom.
Range Creek, Utah
Wednesday, July 29, 8 pm
TIME TEAM AMERICA heads to the picturesque and remote canyons of southern Utah to examine what remains of the Fremont Indians, who vanished 1,000 years ago. Utah's state archaeologist calls in the team to examine some of the most pristine and puzzling archaeology in the United States. The team probes the ground, scales the cliffs and learns what life was like in these canyons a thousand years ago.
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