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Amelia Earhart's Bones and Shoes? Current Anthropological Perspectives on an Historical Mystery
Karen Ramey Burns, Richard L. Jantz, Thomas F. King et al., 1998. TIGHAR Tracks 14(2).
Applies FORDISC discriminant analysis to Hoodless's measurements and concludes the bones were most likely those of a tall white female of northern European ancestry.
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The first re-analysis; the beginning of the bones controversy.
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Burns, K. R., Jantz, R. L., King, T. F., & Gillespie, R. E. (1998). Amelia Earhart's Bones and Shoes? Current Anthropological Perspectives on an Historical Mystery. TIGHAR Tracks 14(2). https://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/14_2/14_2bones.pdf
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Burns, Karen Ramey et al.. “Amelia Earhart's Bones and Shoes? Current Anthropological Perspectives on an Historical Mystery.” TIGHAR Tracks 14(2) (1998).