In contrast, the earlier Jamestown colony, whose 400th anniversary we now commemorate, ... as Native Americans and imported Africans were enslaved in both New England and the South.

May 1623: After agreeing to a peace parley, several Native American leaders in the area are killed after drinking poisoned wine. May 1624 : The Virginia Company is dissolved and Jamestown becomes ...

For years, Jamestown’s focus has been on the settlement’s earliest years and how it barely got by after its 1607 founding. A new exhibition at the Jamestown Archaearium opening Monday e… ...

To learn more about Jamestown's pups, the team took DNA samples from 22 canid specimens excavated from Jamestown within the last 30 years that belonged to dogs living between 1609 and 1617.

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 ...

11 Amazing Facts About Jamestown, the First Permanent English Colony in North ... His beef with the governor arose when he was denied military help to violently expel Native Americans from their ...

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 ...

At least six of the Jamestown dogs that were analysed had unambiguous evidence of Native American ancestry. These dogs shared mitogenomic similarities with Hopewellian, Mississippian, and Late ...

Two decades before Jamestown, settlers arrived in what is now North Carolina. What happened to them is a mystery, but there are some clues. Excavations at the site of a Native American town on ...

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.

In 1607, Capt. John Smith led the establishment of Jamestown near the Chesapeake Bay, a site deemed secure from Spanish ships and safer for ships to navigate than Roanoke Island. It also was removed ...

JAMESTOWN, Va. — Valarie Gray-Holmes sits quietly, her back to the audience gathered at benches under oak and cypress trees by the James River at Virginia’s Historic Jamestowne. She smooths ...