Owen Beattie

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Owen Beattie

Anthropology

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#243

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According to Wikipedia, Owen Beattie is a Canadian professor of anthropology at the University of Alberta. Beattie gained international attention in 1984 for his investigation into the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin, which had left England in 1845 searching for the Northwest Passage. His specialized knowledge of human skeletal biology and forensic anthropology has led Beattie to assist the RCMP and other agencies in criminal investigations and accidents, including the Hinton rail disaster in central Alberta. Through the exhumation in 1984 and 1986 of the frozen bodies of Petty Officer John Torrington, Able-bodied Seaman John Hartnell and Royal Marine William Braine, on Beechey Island, Beattie was able to trace the source of the lead to the expedition's tinned food supply.

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Owen Beattie's Published Works

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The Kwäday dän Ts'ínchi discovery from a glacier in British Columbia (2000) (56)
A Critical Look at Methods for Recovering, Evaluating, and Interpreting Cremated Human Remains (2002) (48)
Arctic paleoradiology: portable radiographic examination of two frozen sailors from the Franklin expedition (1845-1848). (1987) (44)
Probing dietary change of the Kwädąy Dän Ts'ìnchį individual, an ancient glacier body from British Columbia: II. Deconvoluting whole skin and bone collagen δ13C values via carbon isotope analysis of individual amino acids (2009) (42)
Source identification of lead found in tissues of sailors from the Franklin Arctic Expedition of 1845 (1991) (40)
Scavenging activity can produce predictable patterns in surface skeletal remains scattering: observations and comments from two experiments. (2009) (40)
Lead Levels in Human Tissues from the Franklin Forensic Project (1989) (38)
Probing dietary change of the Kwädąy Dän Ts'ìnchį individual, an ancient glacier body from British Columbia: I. Complementary use of marine lipid biomarker and carbon isotope signatures as novel indicators of a marine diet (2008) (35)
Radiocarbon Dating and Dietary Stable Isotope Analysis of Kwaday Dän Ts'inchí (2007) (29)
The last Franklin expedition: report of a postmortem examination of a crew member. (1986) (27)
Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition (1992) (27)
Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier: reconstructing his last days by intestinal and biomolecular analyses (2004) (25)
Discovery of human remains from Sir John Franklin’s last expedition (1983) (24)
Frozen in Time (2020) (19)
An analysis of prehistoric human skeletal material from the Gulf of Georgia region of British Columbia (1980) (15)
Evidence for End-stage Cannibalism on Sir John Franklin's Last Expedition to the Arctic, 1845 (2016) (13)
A late Pleistocene Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) from Courtenay, British Columbia: its death, associated biota, and paleoenvironment (2004) (11)
Did solder kill Franklins men? (1990) (10)
The palaeoimaging and forensic anthropology of frozen sailors from the Franklin Arctic expedition mass disaster (1845–1848): a detailed presentation of two radiological surveys (1996) (9)
A Fossilized Calotte with Prominent Browridges from Lagoa Santa, Brazil (1984) (7)
Buried in Ice (1992) (5)
Dead Silence: The Greatest Mystery in Arctic Discovery (1993) (5)
The Pitt Lake Pictograph Sites (2017) (3)
Salvage Archaeology at Bliss Landing (2017) (3)
Archaeological Research in the Gaspe Peninsula, Preliminary Report (2017) (0)
last days by intestinal and biomolecular analyses Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier: reconstructing his (2014) (0)
A Note on the Early Cranial Studies from the Gulf of Georgia Region: Long-heads, Broad-heads and the Myth of Migration (1985) (0)
The Frozen Family from the Utqiagvik Site, Barrow, Alaska: Papers form a symposium (1985) (0)

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University of Alberta