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Jamestown Colonists Resorted to Cannibalism
2013-05-01 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Jamestown archaeologists have discovered the first evidence of cannibalism by desperate colonists driven by hunger during the Starving Times of 1609-1610, at the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Portions of the butchered skull and shinbone of a 14-year-old girl from England were unearthed last year while researchers excavated a trash deposit at the James Fort site. The findings answer a longstanding question among historians about the occurrence of cannibalism at the settlement...
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