Research conducted by Dr. Gwen Robbins, an assistant professor of biological anthropology at Appalachian State University, finds there is no evidence of cannibalism among the 84 members of the Donner Party who were trapped by a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the mid-1840s.
They did, however, eat their dog.
Meh.. the findings only prove that there were no human bones in the hearth that they excavated. Maybe they microwaved their dinner?
Posted by: grahamblank | April 16, 2010 at 11:15 AM