What a useful article, innacuracies and all. May someone come forward as a result.
I was just thinking about this topic a few days ago as I poured through an archived TIGHAR article about the bones and measurements (Ameliapedia? The links mush together after awhile!) I wondered are there any x-rays of Amelia anywhere, and if the measurements of those bones could be compared with these measurements? It seems that x-rays would have been used more or less commonly in the 1930s, according to Wikipedia, although I don't yet know how to create a link, so won't cite it here.
I don't remember seeing the part about the drilled hole in the sinus area in the TIGHAR articles. Is this one of the inaccuracies? How did that information become correlated with notations about the bones discovered on Niku?
This process is addictive. Gotta say, when I read the Tracks article a few nights ago with photos and descriptions of shoe parts discovered 1991-92...that, to me, is the most definitive evidence yet.
Getting back to bones and remains, I wrote a private message to Ric about detector dogs some weeks ago and didn't hear back. He probably gets so many wild and impractical ideas thrown his way. Sniffer dogs can detect parts-per-trillion, can detect a tiny drop of blood after it's been scrubbed away. I half-imagine having a dog sniff to find any other bones near where those suspected to be Amelia's were found on the island. As I recall, we don't know yet what happened to Fred? Then I realized how difficult it would be to transport such a dog to the island under conditions where it is difficult and expensive to transport, feed, and water humans doing research. Well, perhaps this will stimulate a more practical idea from someone else...
Lisa