Amelia Earhart: Island bones 'likely' belonged to famed pilot
Bones discovered on a Pacific island in 1940 are "likely" to be those of famed pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a US peer reviewed science journal. Earhart, her plane, and her navigator vanished without a trace in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean. Many theories have sought to explain her disappearance.
But a new study published in Forensic Anthropology claims these bones prove she died as an island castaway. The report claims they are a 99% match, despite an earlier conclusion.
The study, titled Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones, was first published by the University of Florida and conducted by Professor Richard Jantz from the University of Tennessee. It disputes that the remains found on the eastern Pacific island of Nikumaroro - about 1,800 miles (2,900km) southwest of Hawaii - belonged to a man, as a researcher had determined in 1941.
Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones (open, DOI: 10.5744/fa.2018.0009) (DX)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday March 11 2018, @02:40PM
Well, can we bring in some anthropological-demographic expertise that can throw another layer on the analysis - I mean, if this group says that "from the pile of all old bones in the world, these are a 99% match for the Earhart expedition" how hard would it then be to say: the chances of a 99% match for Earhart showing up on this island at this time are.... left for the reader to draw their own conclusions? I would think they could do better than that: number of human travelers in the region, their demographic makeup, odds for confusing sets of bones being found, etc.
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