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The Final Days of the Franklin Expedition: New Skeletal Evidence
Anne Keenleyside, Margaret Bertulli, Henry C. Fricke, 1997. ARCTIC 50(1): 36-46.
About 400 bones of at least eleven individuals from site NgLj-2 in Erebus Bay, with cut marks consistent with defleshing, high lead levels and signs of scurvy.
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The first physical evidence of cannibalism, matching Inuit accounts reported by John Rae.
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Keenleyside, A., Bertulli, M., & Fricke, H. C. (1997). The Final Days of the Franklin Expedition: New Skeletal Evidence. ARCTIC 50(1): 36-46. https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic1089
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