Ethics and Burial Archaeology

158 Pages·2017·4.671 MB·English

by  Duncan Sayer

Ethics and Burial Archaeology
DUCKWORTH DEBATES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Series editor: Richard Hodges
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Archaeology: The Conceptual Challenge Timothy Insoll
Archaeology and Text John Moreland
Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque
Tadhg O’Keeffe
Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians Peter S. Wells
Combat Archaeology John Schofield
Debating the Archaeological Heritage Robin Skeates
Early Islamic Syria Alan Walmsley
Gerasa and the Decapolis David Kennedy
Image and Response in Early Europe Peter S. Wells
Indo-Roman Trade Roberta Tomber
Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership Colin Renfrew
Lost Civilization James L. Boone
The Origins of the English Catherine Hills
Rethinking Wetland Archaeology Robert Van de Noort &
Aidan O’Sullivan
The Roman Countryside Stephen Dyson
Shipwreck Archaeology of the Holy Land Sean Kingsley
Social Evolution Mark Pluciennik
State Formation in Early China Li Liu & Xingcan Chen
Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne
Richard Hodges
Villa to Village Riccardo Francovich & Richard Hodges
Ethics and Burial
Archaeology
Duncan Sayer
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‘If these bones lie at peace civilisation may surely rest.’
Bernard Levin, The Times, 11 January 1984
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Contents
Preface 9
Acknowledgements 11
List of Figures 12
Introduction 13
1. Archaeology and exhumation 21
2. Archaeology, heritage and British burial law 45
3. Human decency, politics and digging the dead 70
4. Display, repatriation and respect for the dead 95
Conclusion: the problem of modernity and the
ancient dead 127
Bibliography 139
Index 153
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For my parents Sue and Phil Sayer
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