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Evidence of Cannibalism Found at Jamestown Site
By NICHOLAS WADE
New York Times / Published: May 1, 2013
Archaeologists excavating a trash pit at the Jamestown colony site in
Virginia have found direct evidence of the cannibalism that had long
been known to have occurred among the desperate population. Cut marks
on the skull and skeleton of a 14-year-old girl show her flesh and
brain were removed, presumably to be eaten by the starving colonists
during the harsh winter of 1609.
...The skull bears tentative cuts to the forehead, followed by four
strikes to the back of the head, one of which split the skull open,
according to an article in the Smithsonian magazine, where the find
was reported.
...she was probably dead already and even buried before being
butchered. According to a letter written in 1625 by George Percy,
president of Jamestown during the starvation period, the famine was so
intense �thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those
things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of
graves and to eate them.�
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/science/evidence-of-cannibalism-found-at-jamestown-site.html
By NICHOLAS WADE
New York Times / Published: May 1, 2013
Archaeologists excavating a trash pit at the Jamestown colony site in
Virginia have found direct evidence of the cannibalism that had long
been known to have occurred among the desperate population. Cut marks
on the skull and skeleton of a 14-year-old girl show her flesh and
brain were removed, presumably to be eaten by the starving colonists
during the harsh winter of 1609.
...The skull bears tentative cuts to the forehead, followed by four
strikes to the back of the head, one of which split the skull open,
according to an article in the Smithsonian magazine, where the find
was reported.
...she was probably dead already and even buried before being
butchered. According to a letter written in 1625 by George Percy,
president of Jamestown during the starvation period, the famine was so
intense �thatt notheinge was Spared to mainteyne Lyfe and to doe those
things which seame incredible, as to digge upp deade corpes outt of
graves and to eate them.�
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/science/evidence-of-cannibalism-found-at-jamestown-site.html
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