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 ...

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 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 ...

A team of UI archeologists extracted DNA from dog remains found at an early settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, that revealed links to an Indigenous dog lineage. Jamestown is a historic site in east ...

Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day. To better understand the timing of this replacement, ...

“Hare Indian Dog” by John Woodhouse Audubon, from “The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America” (1845-1848). (Whitney Western Art Museum 14.88.2, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyo.) They were ...

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 ...

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

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, ...