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Posted Wed May 1 2013: from Smithsonian Institution:
Startling Survival Story at Historic Jamestown: Physical Evidence of Survival Cannibalism http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1367451533
Douglas Owsley, the division head for physical anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, presented today a forensic analysis of 17th-century human remains proving that survival cannibalism took place in historic Jamestown. The findings answer a long-standing question among historians about the occurrence of cannibalism at Jamestown during the deadly winter of 1609-1610 known as the "starving time" -- a period during which about 80 percent of the colonists died.
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