Professor's Research Finds No Evidence of Cannibalism at Donner Party Campsite
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 11:43
in Earth & Climate
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.