Cannibalism At Jamestown: Listening To The Bones | TIME

Archeologists discovered bones they say may prove that Jamestown settlers resorted to cannibalism in the brutal winter of 1609-1610.

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Cannibalism At Jamestown: Listening To The Bones | TIME

[Kaeflaith]

That single skull (and leg bone) were found in a pile of animal bones that had been used for food - not in a grave like the other colonists. The other parts may have been harvested first, and if truly desperate a person might eat the face of someone they knew. Or perhaps they didn't know her, 300 new colonists had just arrived from England. Also, I have several recipes that call for the head of a cow or pig, so there is plenty of edible meat there.

[sanjuanagasca]

why isn't this topic brought up in History books in the U.S.?

[andrewwebb-trezzi]

I personally don’t find the issue being that they ate her out of desperation, it was that in her death she gave them life but they still threw her out like a worthless piece of trash. Shameful even for back then.

[DKnarugioh]

if i had eaten a horse, rats, and shoe, i would probably resort to eating dead people

[DinoThatPlaysHaloQ]

Now this music is way too upbeat for what they are talking about

[Kaeflaith]

It was specifically stated in the video that the wounds were made after death, so they weren't what killed her. If she had been murdered, why was she dumped on a trash heap instead of buried like the other colonists who had died?

[maracohen]

They shouldn't have pissed off the locals.

[silva]

hey, when you're outta food you gotta do what you gotta do. take the donner party for example

[jmr]

Actually almost every major civilization has had an episode with cannibalism. If your remark intended to slight the West, it comes short. Cannibalism often times as to do more with circumstances related to survival rather than cultural or moral.

[attackthecanvas]

the woman narrating this is high af. those eyes man.... totally red.

[MrEnjoivolcom]

I don't believe cannibalism is that far out there to believe in Jamestown. And quite obviously, the settlers didn't either, lol. 🍽

[markpettigrew]

The main thing to remember, when condemning settlers for doing horrible things to Native Americans, is that revenge is a powerful motive. From the colonists' point of view, the Powhattan "Indians" should have shared their food so that the Jamestown settlers would not have been forced to cannibalize their young in order to survive. It's easy to judge people based on standards formed during a more prosperous time. They had no grocery stores! Aren't you glad to be living in the 21st Century? I am. We have plenty of problems still, but most of us don't have to eat other people.

[maestoso]

It’s too bad the Jamestown colonists didn’t join the Powhatan tribe to survive like they suspect the Carolina lost colony settlers did. Maybe they had unfriendly relations.

[LeeRaldar]

Over 99 years ago long before mobile phones, GPS, radios or rescue services were invented when people got into trouble like in shipwrecks or stranded somewhere they were given like a free pass if they ate somebody who died to avoid starvation. People who ate others just to be badass still were hung though.

[punerebel]

Even money can't save you when people become desperate

[sixpinis]

As a 14 year old girl, this is pretty creepy because i think i resemble the reconstruction a bit

[KiyLei]

There is no "may have." They were starving and resorted to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

[williamwest]

Tuff can't imagine what that would have been like to go back in times. I would like to be the invisible man and just hang around. I would probably have many emotions. We have it made

[djilyaz]

Wow! Just sickens me, suicide wasn't an option?

[radguzzi]

" a cleaver or a lightweight hatchet" You mean a TOMAHAWK?