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Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition
Douglas R. Stenton, Stephen Fratpietro, Robert W. Park, 2024. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 59: 104748.
Identifies Captain James Fitzjames of HMS Erebus from a tooth in a mandible bearing cut marks, by a Y-DNA match with a distant paternal relative.
What it's used for here
The identification of a senior officer, and direct evidence that his body was cannibalised.
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The Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)
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Stenton, D. R., Fratpietro, S., & Park, R. W. (2024). Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 59: 104748. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104748
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Stenton, Douglas R. et al.. “Identification of a senior officer from Sir John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 59: 104748 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104748.