Colonial cannibals?

• Position: EARLY AMERICA - Evidence of cannibalism in Jamestown, Virginia settlers - Brief article

Did the desperate English settlers of Jamestown resort to eating human remains to survive the brutal winter of 1609? Written accounts have long had historians wondering, but now archaeologists have found the first physical evidence of cannibalism at the Virginia settlement. The cut marks on the skull and skeleton of a 14-year-old girl excavated last year from a trash pit in Jamestown suggest that her flesh and brain were removed, presumably to be eaten. It's unclear how the girl died, but she seems to have been dead and buried before her remains were butchered. An analysis of her bones indicates she ate a high-protein diet, so she...