Settlers at Virginia's Jamestown Colony resorted to cannibalism to survive the harsh winter of 1609, dismembering and consuming a 14-year-old English girl, the U.S. Smithsonian Institution reported last week. This is the first direct evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in the Americas, according to the Washington-based museum and research complex. A recent excavation at the historic site revealed not just the remains of dogs, cats, and horses eaten by settlers during the cold "Starving Time" of that year, but also the bones of a girl known to ... Read More