Bones found on the beach at Cap de Rosier in Canada show evidence of low protein intake and severe malnutrition, supporting the possibility that they were victims of the Great Famine in Ireland.
Radio-CanadaLaboratory tests have confirmed a long-held hypothesis that the remains at Cap des Rosiers were those of those who perished in the 1847 shipwreck of the Carricks.
“We did everything we could because the remains were very fragmentary,” said Isabelle Ribault, an associate professor in the University of Montreal's bioarchaeology department. “They were extremely fragile.”
Although experts had a fairly confident assumption that the location and condition of these bones
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