Jamestown colonists killed and ate the dogs of Indigenous Americans

By Owen Jarus last updated 15 hours ago

Archaeologists investigating Jamestown have discovered that colonists likely butchered and ate the dogs of Indigenous Americans.


Colonists at Jamestown — one of the first English colonies in North America — likely killed and ate local dogs, a new study finds.

Most of the dog bones excavated at Jamestown have cut marks on them, suggesting that "it is possible that they were eaten," study co-author Ariane Thomas, a doctoral student of biological anthropology at the University of Iowa, told Live Science in an email.

But given the starvation and evidence for human cannibalism at Jamestown, it is not surprising that people ate dogs, Thomas said.

These dogs were at least partly related to those that first roamed the continent before European settlers arrived, and have genetic similarities with dogs from the Hopewellian, Mississippian and Late Woodland periods of eastern North America, the researchers found.

More:
https://www.livescience.com/jamestown-colonists-ate-indigenous-dogs

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If these people couldn't manage things without resorting to eating other folks, and people's pets, maybe they should have stayed home, and planned better before buying a ticket to the "New World!"





Does that mean this picture isn't actually a photograph?????