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 frojack on Sunday March 11 2018, @06:50PM (1 child)
Read more carefully. Exactly ONE guy with medical training examined these bones, and guessed they were male.
The Doctor: https://tighar.org/wiki/David_Winn_Hoodless,_MD [tighar.org] A not too well thought of director of a Fiji medical school.
(Above link suggests bones were lost upon this doctor turning over his retirement).
More about the actual bones: https://tighar.org/wiki/Bones_found_on_Nikumaroro [tighar.org]
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday March 12 2018, @02:38AM
And all speculation until someone manages a DNA match that's sufficiently convincing. So far that's apparently been a Fail.
https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/59_DNAResearch/59_DNAResearch.htm [tighar.org]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.