Forensic analysis of pigtails to help identify original 'mutineers of H.M.S. Bounty'
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 06:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Ten pigtails of hair thought to be from seven mutineers of "Mutiny on the Bounty" fame and three of their female Polynesian companions will be analysed in a new collaboration between the Pitcairn Islands Study Centre at Pacific Union College (California, US) and the forensic DNA group at King's College London (UK).