"Cooking hearth found near site of cannibal camp"

The Scotsman doesn't have more information than other papers, but it does have a more entertaining headline:

ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the United States have unearthed a cooking hearth in the Sierra Nevada where they believe members of the Donner Party gathered for meagre meals in the months before starvation led to the country's most famous tale of cannibalism...

And, according to the WaPo:

"Despite their desperate situation, they were trying to act like real humans, eating off of plates and drinking out of teacups," said Kelly Dixon, an archaeologist from the University of Montana and co-leader of the dig. "If we could identify the bones as human and could locate cut marks, we would have the grounds to settle this controversy once and for all."

California · Sun, 07/18/2004 - 10:44 · · Importance: 1

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