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The Starving Time
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"Tarter, Brent (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 2 May 2013 17:08:16 +0000
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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:

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

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virgnia
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