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Jamestown Settlers Ate a Child

DESPERATE TIMES

First evidence of colonists resorting to cannibalism.

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Scientists have confirmed the first archeological evidence that Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism with the gruesome discovery of a 14-year-old girl’s skeleton. The English girl’s remains date back to the deadly winter of 1609–10, known as the “starving time,” when settlers ate dogs, cats, horses, and even humans in the...

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