On this Thanksgiving week episode we take a field trip to the earliest days of the Jamestown Colony where starving settlers resorted to cannibalism for survival.
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Facial reconstruction of 14 year old cannibal victim
Cannibal victim’s skull showing butchering marks
Jamestown Colony graves
Artist reconstruction of Jamestown Colony
Archaeological excavation and reconstruction at Jamestown Colony
Jamestown Crosses
SOURCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsenacommacah
https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/jamestown
https://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/the-starving-time/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/starving-time
https://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)