Tuesday on TV: Did early American settlers survive by cannibalism?

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Well, here's something they didn't teach us in school about early America settlers. They might have eaten each other.

This week's episode of "Secrets of the Dead" (9:30 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7) — titled "Jamestown's Dark Winter" — is the story of the Jamestown settlement, the first permanent English colony in the Americas. The story is seen through the prism of a 14-year-old English girl whose skull and severed leg were discovered during the excavation of the trash layer of a cellar.

So … was there cannablism?

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