Posted on 03/07/2018 5:24:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
Richard Jantz, an emeritus anthropology professor at the University of Tennessee, argues that bones discovered on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro in 1940 were likely Earhart’s remains. The research contradicts a forensic analysis of the remains in 1941 that described the bones as belonging to a male.
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One well-publicized theory is that Earhart died a castaway after landing her plane on the remote island of Nikumaroro, a coral atoll 1,200 miles from the Marshall Islands. Some 13 human bones were found on Nikumaroro, also known as Gardner Island, three years after Earhart’s disappearance.
In 1941, the bones were analyzed by Dr. David Hoodless, principal of the Central Medical School in Fiji. However, Jantz says that modern analysis techniques may have delivered a different result, particularly with regard to gender.
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Hoodless used 19th-century forensic science and described the bones as possibly belonging to a “short, stocky muscular European,” according to Jantz. The 1941 analysis described the remains as those of a male around 5 feet 5½ inches.
Earhart’s pilot’s license, however, recorded her height as 5 feet 8 inches and her driver’s license said 5 feet 7. Photos also show Earhart’s slender frame.
Jantz says the methods used by Hoodless underestimated height compared to modern techniques.
Hoodless used three criteria in his research: the ratio of the femur’s circumference to length, the angle of the femur and pelvis, and the subpubic angle, which is formed between two pelvis bones. The subpubic angle is wider in women than in men.
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The scientist also compared Hoodless’ measurements to data from 2,776 other people, as well as studying photos of Earhart and her clothing measurements. “This analysis reveals that Earhart is more similar to the Nikumaroro bones than 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample,” said Jantz.
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Perhaps he's trying to find a nice way of saying that Earhart had a mannish build.
Doesn’t really sound like settled science to me.
The bones have been ‘lost’ for likely all of Jantz’s lifetime. Yet he is ‘sure’ that people who actually saw and handled the bones are wrong and he is right.
Amelia Appealsya to ME.
(Bad attempt at humorous ryme)
The picture of Earhart and her co pilot on a peer says they are all wrong. They became POW
Can’t they do a DNA comparison with her living relatives?
Your understanding of that photo is as good as your spelling. That picture appeared in a prewar book published in Japan. Try to catch up on the news before saying dumb stuff.
And died on Saipan. Numerous reports described her in the years following the war.
She’s living with Elvis somewhere in Texas. Paul Allen off to find her aircraft.
Maybe there’s something we didn’t know about zer.
Interesting
I STILL think she was hot, and she loved the camera, but I believe she scared the JIT out'a men and I think that hurt her.
All this amateur psychoanalysis ... maybe I'M crazy.
Ah yes. The feminist ‘hero’ whose major achievement was getting lost. She’s got plenty of female company.
Maybe they found bones of someone else! Amelia Earhart was a leader as far as women flying, however i wonder what she thought of the #MeToo movement, global warming and Hillary Clinton...
Shush - it’s a secret threesome of sorts. And yeah, saw the movie.
Ah yes. The feminist ‘hero’ whose major achievement was getting lost.
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She was more of a daredevil than a pilot. There were major mistakes made on her last flight and it was doomed from the start. There was nothing but wide open ocean where she ended up.
The best sentence as usual is near the bottom of the article. Jantz is well past his prime and probably looking for some cheap attention:
Despite Jantz’s skepticism about the 1941 analysis of the bones, some modern scientists have backed up the Hoodless results.
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