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 ...

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 ...

Wild turkeys flourished around the Jamestown colony in 1607 and throughout most of 17th and 18th century Virginia, when wild game was a food staple for colonists and settlers, who explored and ...

The ancestry of dogs in seventeenth-century Jamestown offers a window into social dynamics between Indigenous people and early colonists. America’s first permanent English colony, Jamestown was ...

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, Va. — The dig site where archaeologist Sean Romo has just found the ancient fragment of armor is surrounded by a double layer of green sandbags to keep out water. A dig site nearby is ...

Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607 and was the first English permanent settlement in America. It has been the subject of many archaeological and historical analyses, including a recent study by ...