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Douglas Owsley, forensic anthropologist, uncovering skull and model of \"jane\" - remains of a 14-year-old girl who experts believe was cannibalised post-mortem in colonial Jamestown, UPSOUND: (English) \"This is Jane\"; zoom in2. Close...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Douglas Owsley, forensic anthropologist, uncovering skull and model of \"jane\" - remains of a 14-year-old girl who experts believe was cannibalised post-mortem in colonial Jamestown, UPSOUND: (English) \"This is Jane\"; zoom in\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close of skull\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Horn, Vice President of Research and Historical Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"How many of the growing numbers of dead were cannibalised is unknown. But we don't believe Jane was a lone case. Only in the most desperate of circumstances would the English have turned to cannibalism.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of journalists\u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of skull and prosthetic models\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Douglas Owsley, Forensic anthropologist, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's extremely limited skill in terms of kitchen technique. It is not the result of a butcher, someone that is working at their craft. Instead what we see is hesitancy, trial, tentativeness, and just an absolute, total lack of experience. This is not, in terms of the cut marks that you see in some of these unusual places, not the types of cutting that you would see in any type of animal butchering.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close of skull, zoom in on deep scars on top of scull\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Douglas Owsley, Forensic anthropologist, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The person doing this was clearly interested in, based on what would have been accepted cuisine in the 17th century, in cheek meat, muscles of the face, that area, and tongue. And, also in terms of 17th century traditional cuts, would also include the brain. It is possible, just looking at this - now this is conjecture - it could be that more than one individual is actually involved in this work because, as I say, the person doing the head and face work, they are, they are out of their element, and the person that - if it is a second person that is working on the leg - that is certainly much more in line with conventional practice in terms of animal butchering.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of 3-D image on screen filling in missing bone fragments of skull\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of 3-D image of skull and model of \"Jane\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Kelso, Chief archaeologist at Jamestown:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There are five accounts, or actually six accounts, in the records that, that these, that there was cannibalism. And they have different - ranges from eyewitnesses at the time to hearsay later on in the 17th century. So, I think that's essential. I mean that's the background and that was a subject that was debated by historians. Without this, without this evidence. Now that we have this evidence, it's pretty clear that these accounts were true.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of journalists\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid 3-D image of model of skull\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of model of \"Jane\", zoom in\u003cbr/\u003eScientists in the US revealed on Wednesday that they have found the first solid archaeological evidence that some of the earliest colonists at Jamestown, Virginia, survived harsh conditions by turning to cannibalism.\u003cbr/\u003eFor years, there have been tales of people in the first permanent English settlement in America eating dogs, cats, rats, mice, snakes and shoe leather to stave off starvation.\u003cbr/\u003eThere were also written accounts of settlers eating their own dead, but archaeologists had been sceptical of those stories.\u003cbr/\u003eBut now, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and archaeologists from Jamestown are announcing the discovery of the bones of a 14-year-old girl that show clear signs that she was cannibalised.\u003cbr/\u003eEvidence indicates clumsy chops to the body and head of the girl, who appears to have already been dead at the time.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now that we have this evidence, it's pretty clear that these accounts were true,\" said William Kelso, chief archaeologist at Jamestown.\u003cbr/\u003eSmithsonian forensic anthropologist Douglas Owsley said the human remains date back to a deadly winter known as the \"starving time\" in Jamestown from 1609 to 1610.\u003cbr/\u003eHundreds died during the period.\u003cbr/\u003eScientists have said the settlers likely arrived during the worst drought in 800 years, bringing severe food shortages for the six-thousand people who lived at Jamestown between 1607 and 1625.\u003cbr/\u003eThe historical record is chilling.\u003cbr/\u003eEarly Jamestown colony leader George Percy, as well as Captain John Smith, the colony's most famous leader, wrote of a \"world of miseries\" that included digging up corpses from their graves to eat when there was nothing else.\u003cbr/\u003eThere was a cultural stigma against killing someone for food but, talking about \"Jane\", Owsley said it was the work of someone not skilled at butchering, indicating a sense of desperation.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The person doing this is clearly interested in, based on what would have been accepted cuisine in the 17th century, in cheek meat, muscles of the face, that area, and tongue. And also in terms of 17th century traditional cuts, would also include the brain,\" Owsley said during a news conference on Wednesday.\u003cbr/\u003eOwsley has been working with Kelso since their first burial discovery in 1996.\u003cbr/\u003eThe remains of the 14-year-old girl, named \"Jane\" by researchers, were discovered in the summer of 2012 and mark the fourth set of human remains uncovered at Jamestown outside of graves.\u003cbr/\u003eOwsley, who has also done forensic analysis for police investigations, examined the girl's remains and how the body had been dismembered, including chops to the front and back of the head.\u003cbr/\u003eThe girl was likely already dead at the time.\u003cbr/\u003eHer remains were found in a cellar at the site that had been filled with trash, including bones of horses and other animals consumed in desperation, according to archaeologists.\u003cbr/\u003eThe discovery detracts from the happier mythology of John Smith and Pocahontas that many associate with Jamestown.\u003cbr/\u003eThe vice president of research at nearby Colonial Williamsburg, which oversees excavations of the original Jamestown site, said visitors will have a fuller view of a terrible time in early American history.\u003cbr/\u003e\"How many of the growing numbers of dead were cannibalised is unknown. 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