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Jamestown settlers ate 14-year-old girl, researchers say
Pioneer Press/LA Times ^ | 3-18-15 | Matt Pearce

Posted on 03/18/2015 6:31:00 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

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To: Albion Wilde

That was a hard hit to the back of the head. It was likely a metal tool or weapon and not from an animal.


41 posted on 03/18/2015 8:21:46 AM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: IMR 4350

Tough time of year to survive in my neck of the woods. There is ice on the lakes but its rotten. Too early for anything to be growing. Birds have picked bushes and trees clean of dried berries. You might find some nuts if the critters haven’t picked them over.

Farming really is the only way to go for long term survival.


42 posted on 03/18/2015 8:23:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: ßuddaßudd

I think history has proved that white man started the scalping.


43 posted on 03/18/2015 8:32:08 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: allendale

One of my ancestors was aboard one of the ships that got shipwrecked on Bermuda, then repaired the boats and arrived at Jamestowne just in time to rescue the starving colonists. They had been trapped in the fort by the Powhatan Indians, so could not hunt or forage. On top of that the winter was so severe that the rivers froze solid. The world was undergoing a Little Ice Age.


44 posted on 03/18/2015 8:38:01 AM PDT by Help!
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To: Buttons12

Tramping through the woods hunting is often a net loss of energy. Unless large game is plentiful, and it was most assuredly not plentiful that year, hunting was an energy alligator.

Secondly, game is lean, and fat is high energy food. For that reason, black bear were prized as food. And that nice pelt. ;-)


45 posted on 03/18/2015 8:47:18 AM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Help!

Cool. You are privileged to know your family history. Its amazing how history turns on happenchance. If your ancestor had not survived the initial shipwreck and helped repair and restock the ships, Jamestown would not have survived. It took incredible bravery for those folks to do what they did.


46 posted on 03/18/2015 8:48:35 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Deathtomarxists
Not if you are surrounded by Indians hell bent on killing you. They were under siege.
47 posted on 03/18/2015 8:48:41 AM PDT by Mathews (Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV), Luke 22:36 (NIV))
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To: cripplecreek

“Farming really is the only way to go for long term survival.”

If you intend to stay in one place it is otherwise you would need to be like the plains Indians constantly on the move following the game and gathering what you can in the area before moving to the next area.

Indians that stayed in one place farmed. It was mostly beans, squash, and corn and they had meat, fish when they could get it.

That’s exactly why I raise a garden twice a year. Much easier “foraging” inside the garden fence.


48 posted on 03/18/2015 8:49:14 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: rhoda_penmark

that is news to me...


49 posted on 03/18/2015 8:51:17 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Buttons12

..obviously, not taught to be self-reliant..!


50 posted on 03/18/2015 8:55:27 AM PDT by Banjoguy (Start boycotting the airline industry..NOW! Drive everywhere you can.)
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To: cripplecreek

I’d eat a turd, also, if I didn’t have my best friend close.


51 posted on 03/18/2015 8:59:05 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: BenLurkin

He’s such a lecherous perv


52 posted on 03/18/2015 9:00:33 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: rhoda_penmark

No it hasn’t, scalping was an ancient Indian practice.

“Of the approximately 500 bodies at the Crow Creek massacre site, 90 percent of the skulls show evidence of scalping. The event took place around 1325 AD.”


53 posted on 03/18/2015 10:44:44 AM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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To: ßuddaßudd
Werent the peaceful native americans known for mutilating the bodies of the people they killed?

And they were the ones with the tomahawks and the direction of the forehead cuts indicates such a weapon, not a kitchen cleaver.

54 posted on 03/18/2015 11:03:35 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: miliantnutcase
That was a hard hit to the back of the head. It was likely a metal tool or weapon and not from an animal.

Did the body fall hard onto the edge of a wooden chair or a boulder, cracking the skull? Were the remains disturbed by animals or earth movements during the centuries that passed?

55 posted on 03/18/2015 11:05:46 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The greatest danger facing our world: the marriage of militant Islam with nuclear weapons.-Netanyahu)
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To: Flintlock

who would eat clams without linguini?


56 posted on 03/18/2015 11:09:11 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Deathtomarxists
More liberal bullcrap to smear white people. Way too much wild game and natural vegetation, not to mention fish, for them to resort to that.

Yeah, maybe we should talk about the peaceful, agrarian Anasazi instead. :)

57 posted on 03/18/2015 11:09:28 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: ansel12

revisionist history.


58 posted on 03/18/2015 11:14:04 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: rhoda_penmark

“I think history has proved that white man started the scalping.”

Someone had posted that awhile ago so I did some searching. There are accounts of scalping in Europe that go way back, as well as in other places. I’m guessing it was a common enough way in a lot of places, including America 2000 years ago, to prove your manhood, that you had killed the enemy, etc.


59 posted on 03/18/2015 11:24:29 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: rhoda_penmark

Your claim that scalping was brought from Europe to the Indians, is the revisionist history.


60 posted on 03/18/2015 11:27:51 AM PDT by ansel12 (Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
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