I can't get to that article in the Post, but she could have been sick and 
died; so they made soup of her.  When people are starving, they can do 
terrible things.
Kitty
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From: "Carole D. Bryant" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: The Starving Time


> ... but how do they know it was the colonists who killed her ?    Perhaps
> the Indians did it.
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 5/2/2013 1:24:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> 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-gi
> rl-confirms-cannibalism-at-jamestown-colony/2013/05/01/5af5b474-b1dc-11e2-9a
> 98-4be1688d7d84_story.html?hpid=z2<blocked::http://www.washingtonpost.com/na
> tional/health-science/skeleton-of-teenage-girl-confirms-cannibalism-at-james
> town-colony/2013/05/01/5af5b474-b1dc-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html?hpid=
> z2>
>
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