Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 6 years ago, 20 minutes later, 58 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,058,801
#OP asks a good question..
Cemetaries with markers are of course off limits to such plundering but how does one argue that any other type of gravesite does not deserve the same sort of restraint?
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chill dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 6 years ago, 30 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,058,806
@previous (E)
It's done for a reason. The only cemetery I've worked on was to retrieve skeletons before the land they were interred in succumbed to erosion. The retrieved sepulchres (like all retrieved sepulchres afaik) are to be returned to their community for re-interment following study.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 30 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,058,815
For example, a mass plague grave in London was excavated and the remnants stored in museum boxes. But when would it be okay to do that? If I was buried today, what year would I be excavated and put in a museum?
chill dog !!81dzJNNYL replied with this 6 years ago, 1 day later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,059,341
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When was that? The UK has a really bad history with that sort of thing. It wouldn't happen here, afaik we just have the occasional mummy exhibition...which imo is unethical also, but mummies seem to get an exception due to historical fascination.
It is also an interesting question, though. We don't extend the same respect to animal remains. What about other hominids? Early modern humans?
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 6 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,059,400