Thursday, May 2, 2013

Christian Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism

In the most interesting anthropological / american history article I've read in a while, Joseph Stromberg of Smithsonian Magazine details how English settlers in the "American" Jamestown colony resorted to cannibalism during the "Starving Time," for the first time giving physical evidence to written allusions of cannibalism [and explicit mentions of consuming dug-up corpses] by the settlers themselves, via the remains of a 14-year-old girl bearing the marks of butchering.

Read at Smithsonian Mag. | http://mys.tc/2m5

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