This is really old news, but I guess finding skeletal evidence got everybody excited. When I was writing for Jamestown Settlement a few years back and wanted to include the cannibalism info (which is mentioned in original writing), the of committee wouldn't have it-- deeming it too grisly.   I protested, saying that the school groups would love to hear about it... and it would probably make more of the history being shown and explained more memorable for many of them.  Alas... my request fell on deaf ears. Glad to see true history triumphing over political pc think.
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On May 2, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Craig Kilby <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I saw this earlier this morning (it was posted on Dick Eastman's newsletter). What I found incredulous was that they just now discovered all this. Even more incredulous are the ridiculous comments following the on-line article. 
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> On May 2, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Tarter, Brent (LVA) wrote:
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>> The Washington Post of 1 May 2013 has a story about the discovery in Jamestown of forensic evidence of cannibalism, perhaps from the Starving time of 1609-1610:
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>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/skeleton-of-teenage-girl-confirms-cannibalism-at-jamestown-colony/2013/05/01/5af5b474-b1dc-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html?hpid=z2
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