{"id":488,"date":"2012-04-24T20:40:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T00:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/anth331\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-04-24T20:40:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T00:40:23","slug":"archaeological-evidence-of-amelia-earhart-as-a-castaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/archaeological-evidence-of-amelia-earhart-as-a-castaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeological Evidence of Amelia Earhart as a Castaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bf67c53ef0163031cb489970d-pi\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"505\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Executive director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tighar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery<\/a>, Ric Gillespie,<a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/history\/a-small-broken-cosmetic-glass-jar-fragments-of-rouge-from-a-womans-compact-buttons-parts-of-a-pocket-knife-that-was-beat.html\"> describes the latest evidence<\/a> supporting a theory that Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, might have landed in 1937 on an island called Nikumaroro and survived as castaways for weeks or even months. Gellespie&#8217;s slideshow explains all of the fascinating finds from the island, such as cosmetics and a pulverized pocket knife, discusses documentary and even eyewitness evidence that supports the theory, and describes the daunting challenges that a castaway was would have faced on the island, including crabs that would eat you alive and the acquisition of drinkable water. I highly recommend watching this if you have any interest in the mystery of Amelia Earhart or historical archaeology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Executive director of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, Ric Gillespie, describes the latest evidence supporting a theory that Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, might have landed in 1937 on an island called Nikumaroro and survived &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/archaeological-evidence-of-amelia-earhart-as-a-castaway\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26311],"tags":[27692,27693],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sources-of-inspiration","tag-amelia-earhart","tag-historical-archaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/anth331\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}