Indigenous dogs roamed Jamestown in the early 17th century and out of desperation during harsh winter months, some colonists ate them, researchers have proven. A team of archaeologists at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These butchered dog bones were found in the well of a fort at Jamestown. Photo courtesy Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation ...

This article is part of our Pets special section on scientists’ growing interest in our animal companions. For 30 years, archaeologists have been digging at Jamestown, the first permanent British ...

Jamestown residents likely turned to Indigenous dogs as a food source several times during the first 10 years of their Virginia colonization, according to a new study in American Antiquity. They also ...

Dogs with Indigenous ancestry were eaten during a period of starvation at Jamestown, the first English settlement in North America in the 17 th century, according to new research in American Antiquity ...

JAMESTOWN — Early American colonists at Jamestown butchered and ate indigenous dogs as well as the dogs they brought with them from England when food was scarce. Historic records, archaeological work ...

They were dogs that howled but didn’t bark. They resembled foxes, or wolves. And they had been the companions of Native Americans for thousands of years, after their ancestors arrived with early ...