Given their strong affinity for the skeleton, trace elements are often stored in bones and teeth
long term. Diet, geography, health, disease, social status, activity, and occupation are some …

In the summer of 1845, under the command of Sir John Franklin, 128 officers and men
aboard Royal Navy ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into Lancaster Sound and …

Bones represent a valuable biological archive of environmental lead (Pb) exposure for
modern and archaeological populations. Synchrotron radiation X-ray fluorescence imaging …

May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth collects the private correspondence of the officers and
sailors who set out in May 1845 on the Erebus and Terror for Sir John Franklin's fateful Arctic …

On 24 May 1847, Sir John Franklin's third expedition reported “All well”, but less than a year
later, on 22 April 1848, the 129 sailors who had set out from Britain on Erebus and Terror …

Hypotheses on why the 1845 Franklin expedition to the Arctic ended in tragedy include
suggestions of lead (Pb) poisoning. Hair keratin was sequentially analysed for isotopic ratios …

The European quest for a passage by water across North America long pre-dates the
nineteenth century, but it was to be then that it took on the urgency of national achievement …

Lead poisoning has been implicated in the loss in the Arctic of all 129 officers and men of
the British Royal Naval “Franklin expedition” of 1845. In a unique study, D'Ortenzio et …

Bioarchaeology, the sub-discipline of archaeology concentrating on human remains,
involves the study of skeletal tissues to make inferences about lifeways in the past. Trace …

Trace elements, including the toxic trace metal of lead (Pb), have both the potential to
provide valuable insights into past human lifeways, as well as a strong affinity for bone and …