Life was so hard for the first English settlers in Virginia that, in the harsh winter of 1609 they turned to cannibalism. Scientists have found cuts consistent with butchering for meat on human bones that were recently excavated from a dump in Jamestown.
The first permanent English settlement in America.
. The bones are believed to have belonged to a 14-year-old girl, Who was cut up after her death. According to Dr. Owsley a forensic anthropologist, it seems the girl’s skull was smashed open and her brain and cheeks removed for consumption.