Human hair from the wreck of HMS Erebus of the Franklin Expedition, 1845: elemental chemistry revealed by double-ablation LA-ICP-MS

AW Bowman, JR Christensen, C Dagneau… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This report describes the analysis of 20 human scalp hairs, and one facial hair, found
attached to bristles of a hairbrush recovered during underwater archaeological investigation …

Franklin expedition lead exposure: New insights from high resolution confocal x-ray fluorescence imaging of skeletal microstructure

T Swanston, TL Varney, M Kozachuk, S Choudhury… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Skeletal lead burden of the British Royal Navy in colonial Antigua

KL Giffin, T Swanston, I Coulthard… - International Journal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Lead (Pb) has been known to be a cause of human poisoning since ancient times, but
despite this, it was a widely used metal in the European colonial period. In this study, the …

“Hartnell's time machine” reprise: Further implications of zinc, lead and copper in the thumbnail of a Franklin expedition crewmember

K Millar, AW Bowman - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Christensen et al.(2016) have described the application of synchrotron micro-X-ray
fluorescence mapping, stable isotopic analysis and laser-ablation inductively-coupled …

Cognitive archaeology: Estimating the effects of blood-lead concentrations on the neuropsychological function of an officer of the 1845 Franklin expedition

K Millar, AW Bowman - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …