191. Chesapeake Bay’s James River Colony

An archaeological dig at Jamestown, Virginia, unearthed the remains of a teenage girl whose skull had been butchered—confirmation that early settlers resorted to cannibalism to stave off hunger in 1609-10. How does this exciting discovery alter our understanding of that history?
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