Across Europe early medieval archaeologists have long recognised significant numbers of
graves displaying evidence for the intentional post-burial disturbance of skeletons and …

The poorly regulated international marketplace for human remains is the subject of recent
research to document the non-academic trade of former teaching specimens and recently …

People buy and sell human remains online. Most of this trade these days is over social
media. In a study of this 'bone trade', how it works, and why it matters, the authors review and …

Since the social explosion in October 2019 in Chile, a series of social phenomena have
occurred in that country that are worthy of review and study. Some of these phenomena …

On 3 April 2021, the city of Cairo witnessed a lavish nighttime event in which 18 mummified
kings and four queens of ancient Egypt were paraded in custom-built shiny vehicles from …

In a recent worldwide study on the nature, scope, and frequency of archaeological site
looting, the vast majority of field archaeologists reported having had multiple encounters …

This dissertation employs a biocultural approach, theories of identity and embodiment to
assess the demographic profile and health of a population from an early medieval (10 th to …

I first became aware that there was something wrong with the American “way of death,” as
Jessica Mitford put it, in my early twenties when my grandmother died. Although it was not …

There is a thriving trade, and collector community, around human remains that is facilitated
by posts on new social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Etsy, and, until recently, eBay …

Signs of what appears to be ancient grave robbery have frequently been reported in
excavations of Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in Kent. The county is the one area of early …