Early English Settlers in North America Consumed Indigenous Dogs for Survival
Early English settlers in Jamestown ate indigenous dogs to survive the Starving Time, revealing complex interactions with Native American communities.
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Early English settlers in Jamestown ate indigenous dogs to survive the Starving Time, revealing complex interactions with Native American communities.
English settlers had an unusual and disgusting diet during the Starving Time period in the 17th Century. The colonists settled in Jamestown, Virginia where 90 percent died one winter.
Dogs with Indigenous ancestry were eaten during a period of starvation at Jamestown, the first English settlement in North America in the 17th century, according to new research in American Antiquity.
Researchers untangle the complex relationship between colonial and Indigenous dogs during initial English settlement.
In the dreadful winter of 1609, in what was known as the Starving Time in Jamestown, Virginia, a teenage servant girl slips through the wall of the fort built by