Dig Deeper Episode 71 - The Diet of Earliest Colonists: Local Fare and a Taste of the Caribbean

[@enagreco3280]

Very cool!

[@maryg.249]

Finally was able to watch this exciting episode. I love that you have that well with its layers of history waiting to be discovered! Keep plodding along, each discovery adds more to their story. Mary

[@Broadway789]

Iguana at Jamestown? Wow.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks so much for continuing to share with us all the wonderful discoveries. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@henryjohnfacey8213]

Amazing. Very interesting and informative. Greetings from Yorkshire.

[@jerryjones188]

Great video and thanks for continuing to share the hunt for history! I am fortunate to have visited in the summer of 2021 and it was a wonderful experience.

[@kennethcrace6181]

Great find. The ed she'd is a genius idea. Thanks to all for the hard work.

[@alanatolstad4824]

So kool! I'll never get there, so seeing this is delightful.

[@simmomantua8910]

Love the videos I've been watching them for a while now

[@grownjohnboy]

I have been following this for years. Canadian Archeologists would do well to explore Port Royal and Quebec. Both were started at the same time.

[@EmilyGvlSC]

This is fascinating!

[@jaydubbyuh2292]

Thanks and praise to all of you for your heart and diligent work in uncovering our culture

[@AshleyTalleyMarrs]

This is so cool! I would love to participate in the “picking” stage. Is there a way to be notified when there is a need?

[@jefflawrentz1624]

I love this channel and find this fascinating. I wonder if 3d scanning of the artifacts would help with the reassembly of matching fragments? It is amazing to me how much survives in the ground after so many years.

[@barrychandler5250]

My ancestor , John Chandler was taken to Jamestown in 1609 as a 10 year old indentured servant. No telling what he had to eat there !

[@benitagrattan193]

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[@gl15col]

Makes me wonder if somebody picked up a pet iguana at one of the islands, then when times got tough had to eat it...Are there no deer in Jamestown? You'd think that's the first thing they'd start hunting.

[@kenj.8897]

If they went out far from the fort they natives would have had them for lunch

[@jerryjones188]

I believe the native local Indians killed or drove out as much of the deer as possible in order to starve out and force out the colonists. Any colonist who stepped out of the fort for a nature call or to hunt, did so at great peril, because attack was nearly an automatic result. Guerrilla warfare that came oh so close to succeeding against Jamestown. While making their pitstops at the islands before sailing on to Jamestown, the colonists would feast on birds, turtles, iguanas, fish, etc, which were all plentiful. I believe they were so happy at the bountiful and surprisingly delicious new food sources, that there was little chance anybody thought of making pets out of iguanas. At least that is my take after reading some books on Jamestown that relied on first hand accounts. I am reading and have almost finished Sea Venture, which is a good read. I highly recommend "Love and Hate in Jamestown" by David Price, which is well-written, well-researched and riveting. Mr. Price uses corroborating accounts from Captain John Smith and others, as well as some accounts that differed from Smith's. One of my favorite history books!

[@kathleendaugherty4218]

Knowing they were in the Caribbean explains how the settlers would know they were safe to eat.

[@paulstan9828]

😁👍

[@barrychandler5250]

Couldn't an iguana have been a stow-a-way on a ship heading to Jamestown and caught and eaten during hard times ?

[@jerryjones188]

All times were hard times during journeys in the 1600s. Some iguanas may have stowed away or were kept for future meals after leaving the islands, like the bones found in the video, but probably were mostly consumed at the islands, due to necessity and abundance. Surely better food sources than what was on the ships. Stored food full of bugs and stowaway rats? Ugh!