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thatisnotmyknob t1_j24y4og wrote

"In addition, the bones from all three showed cut marks indicating that they had been butchered and eaten by colonists, said Michael Lavin, director of collections at Jamestown Rediscovery. Jamestown’s settlers ran out of food in the winter of 1609-1610 — what was known as the “starving time” — and in desperation ate dogs, rodents, snakes and boots. There is also one account of cannibalism."

Well wasn't expecting that they ate the dogs.

"According to the European colonial records, dogs up and down the Eastern seaboard … were reported to howl and not to bark, giving rise to the term, ‘barkless dogs,’” he wrote.

In two cases, dogs were found buried along with a severed right human forearm. The reason is a mystery. Blick speculated that the arm may have been a war trophy, buried with the dog “to symbolically keep the enemy at bay in the afterlife"

Pretty metal.

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WhiteHairedWidow t1_j25cge8 wrote

The reason is a mystery. Blick speculated that the arm may have been a war trophy, buried with the dog “to symbolically keep the enemy at bay in the afterlife”

I love this haha I just got a book called “Motel of the Mysteries” and its about a civilization 2000 years in the future finding archeological artifacts from our time and they try to explain all of these. An example is looking at the highway system and claiming it was used for extraterrestrial landing.

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SpaceTabs t1_j25vmwd wrote

That was version 1.0 of Jamestown, before the massacre in 1622.

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weedful_things t1_j2bmhej wrote

My wife and I visited Jamestown a few months ago. My cousin works there. She didn't tell us about the cannibalism.

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