Wednesday, May 1, 2013

The Starving Time in Jamestown


As this article in today's WashPost says no one saw people being eaten, but we do have diary entries of cannibalism in Jamestown and the famous Richard Frethhorne account of how bad the circumstances got.  But the article discusses bone findings that show evidence of the skull being hacked open and a meat cleaver being used on a leg of a 14 year old girl. 

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