Colonists at Jamestown — one of the first English colonies in North America — likely killed and ate local dogs, a new study finds. Most of the dog bones excavated at Jamestown have cut marks on them, ...

Detail of cut marks found on the girl’s jaw, or lower mandible in a stereo-microscopic photo. Smithsonian Institution / Don Hurlbert The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia’s Jamestown Colony forced ...

JAMESTOWN — Early American colonists at Jamestown butchered and ate indigenous dogs as well as the dogs they brought with them from England when food was scarce. Historic records, archaeological work ...

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Dogs with Indigenous ancestry were eaten during a period of starvation at Jamestown, the first English settlement in North America in the 17 th century, according to new research in American Antiquity ...

Most people know that part of the reason why the first Thanksgiving was celebrated because the first winter in Plymouth did a number on the Pilgrims. Fewer know how close the Pilgrims came to ...

Researchers announced yesterday (May 1) that they had unearthed the remains of a 14-year-old girl whose skeleton bore the marks of butchering at the hands of her fellow colonists. “The chops to the ...

When the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeology team began excavating a pit on the north side of the church tower, the goal was to discover what it had been used for at the time. But what they hadn’t ...