WILLIAMSBURG — The Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Virginia has presented its first award recognizing ...

A new study of animal bones from Jamestown reveals colonists ferried donkeys across the Atlantic, reshaping early American ...

A study published in Science Advances about centuries-old horse and donkey bones, unearthed in Jamestown, Virginia, is ...

Experts have provided the grisly goods to back up 17th-century accounts of cannibalism during the Jamestown colony's "starving time" — including a skull that shows signs of being chopped at and pried ...

WILLIAMSBURG — At just 4 years old, Ethan Rose is already something of a budding history enthusiast. Last year, the preschooler from Washington, D.C., had an archaeology phase, and right now, his ...

Colonists at Jamestown — one of the first English colonies in North America — likely killed and ate local dogs, a new study finds. Most of the dog bones excavated at Jamestown have cut marks on them, ...

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David Givens, an archaeologist in Jamestown, Virginia, is peering into a pit on a hot, cloudless afternoon in July. A year earlier, his team had been excavating at this spot and chanced upon a circle ...

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Experts have provided the grisly goods to back up 17th-century accounts of cannibalism during the Jamestown colony's "starving time" — including a skull that shows signs of being chopped at and pried ...