Jamestown Colonists Strangely Picked up Donkeys En Route to the New World, and Likely Ate Them

Jamestown Colonists Strangely Picked up Donkeys En Route to the New World, and Likely Ate Them

Learn more about where Jamestown colonists first found donkeys on their voyage to the Americas. Hint, they didn’t come from England.

Donkey bones reveal Jamestown colonists brought donkeys to North America

A new study published in Science Advances is reshaping our understanding of early colonial life in North America. By analyzing centuries-old horse and donkey bones unearthed at Jamestown, Virginia, researchers have discovered that English settlers brought not only horses but also at least one donkey to the colony in the early 1600s—decades earlier than previously […]