The Human Remains from HMS Pandora

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents

• List of Figures

• General introduction
  • The breadfruit voyage in HMS Bounty
  • After the Mutiny
  • Settlement at Pitcairn Island
  • HMS Pandora in pursuit of the Bounty
  • Capture of the fourteen Bounty mutineers
  • The tragedy of the Pandora
• Rediscovery of the Pandora
  • Disintegration of the ship
  • The Pandora wreck and its significance
• The discovery of the human skeletal remains
  • Report on the 1986 skeletal material
  • Skeletal material recovered from 1995-1998
  • Conservation treatment of the skeletal material
    • Introduction to human osteology
  • State of preservation of the remains
  • Sorting of the skeletal material
    • Age determination
    • Race determination
    • Stature estimation
    • Pathology and disorders
    • Injuries
    • Skeletal taphonomy
    • Microscopic examination
    • Reconstruction of skull fragments
    • Skeletal variants and anomalies
    • Possible causes of death
      • Summary on the skeletal findings
• How the skeletal remains originated in the wreck
• Analysis of the men lost from the Pandora
• What became of the majority of the drowned men?
• The four mutineers lost
• The thirty-one Pandora crew lost
• Discussion: the men lost from the Pandora wrecking

• Appendix 1: Bounty mutineers reported drowned on 29 August 1791
• Appendix 2:Pandora Crew reported drowned 29 August 1791
• Bibliography

• Skeletal catalogue (searchable database)
  • Remains belonging to Tom (skeletal chart)
  • Remains belonging to Dick (skeletal chart)
  • Remains belonging to Harry (skeletal chart)
  • Other images of the remains of Tom, Dick and Harry
• Non-human skeletal remains

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