Thursday, May 02, 2013

Were America's Founding Colonists Cannibals?

Examination of the remains of a 14-year old girl show that she may have been eaten by fellow colonists facing starvation in a famine during the early period of American colonization:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/science/evidence-of-cannibalism-found-at-jamestown-site.html

Hmm, that's a bit of a non-traditional image for Thanksgiving.

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