Has any evidence of FN been found at the seven site?
That depends on how you interpret the "evidence," such as it is.
Tom King, TIGHAR's lead archeologist, has a wonderful introductory article about the
Seven Site. It probably needs to be updated with information on things found since the first draft of the article.
If not why not?
There are only so many logical possibilities to answer your question.
- Maybe Fred was never there.
- Maybe all Fred artifacts got lost.
- Maybe the bones were Fred's anyway.
- Maybe the man's shoe got there because Fred wore it there.
- Maybe TIGHAR hasn't looked carefully enough where it has looked.
- Maybe TIGHAR hasn't looked where the Fred evidence is waiting to be found.
Also, why are there so many campfire sites?
Many visitors over many years?
A ring of fires to keep crabs out?
Crabs attracted to stuff in old fires?
Some strange cooking technique?
If I had established one, I would have used that for several days before shifting to another.
If I had been Amelia, I would have landed at Howland after switching my DF system from 7500 kcs to 3105 kcs, so that I could hear voice transmissions from the Itasca. Then we would have worked everything out from there.
If AE spent about a week at each campfire site, she would have been alive for approximately 7 weeks I would think.
TIGHAR has asked the folks examining the bird and fish bones how many meals they might represent. Then that has to be added to an estimate of the food value of the clams. I don't know whether a final report has been written on that question. My fallible recollection is that the food value, if all the remnants came just from the person who left the bones behind, would not have sustained life for very long.