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New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, 1845
S. Mays, A. Ogden, J. Montgomery et al., 2011. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(7): 1571-1582.
The first modern scientific study of the skeleton recovered in 1869 and buried under the Franklin memorial at Greenwich as Lieutenant Henry Le Vesconte of Erebus. Osteology and isotope geochemistry show an adult European male and re-evaluate the 19th-century identification.
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An identification attempt that preceded DNA matching.
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Mays, S., Ogden, A., Montgomery, J., Vincent, S., Battersby, W., & Taylor, G. (2011). New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, 1845. Journal of Archaeological Science 38(7): 1571-1582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.022
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Mays, S. et al.. “New light on the personal identification of a skeleton of a member of Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, 1845.” Journal of Archaeological Science 38(7): 1571-1582 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.022.