Researchers untangle the complex relationship between colonial and Indigenous dogs during initial English settlement.
Jamestown residents likely turned to Indigenous dogs as a food source several times during the first 10 years of their Virginia colonization, according to“The consumption of dogs suggests that Jamestown residents faced multiple periods of severe famine during the site’s early occupation, as well as later periods,” the paper said.
Genetic evidence runs counter to a theory about colonial-era canines: that dogs with predominantly European ancestry didn’t breed with Indigenous animals. The study also states that multiple genetic analysis show “near-complete replacement” of maternal Indigenous dog ancestry by European dog lineages since the Jamestown colonization. Essentially, European dogs eventually outbred the Indigenous species.
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