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What Do Archaeologists Do When They Find Bodies? (Digging up the Dead) : Archaeo-Chat

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Channel: Archaeosoup · 2017 · Education

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Welcome to Archaeo-Chat. In this series we record unscripted conversations about archaeology, what it is like to be an archaeologist and related topics.

Today, Andy and I discuss some of the issues surrounding the ethics and legality of the excavation human bodies and handling of human remains in Archaeology.

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Links:

Meet the mummified Polar beauty, her long eyelashes and hair still intact after 900 years:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/meet-the-mummified-polar-beauty-her-long-eyelashes-and-hair-still-intact-after-900-years/

Resolving the Human Remains Crisis in British Archaeology:

https://pia-journal.co.uk/articles/10.5334/pia.369/

Human Remains Advice:

https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/archaeological-science/human-remains-advice/ 

Historic England/ National Trust joint Statement:

https://historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/archaeological-science/human-remains-advice/avebury-reburial-results/

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