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witch-with-a-dick:
australopithecusrex:
just-shower-thoughts:
How long does someone have to be dead before it’s considered archeology instead of grave robbing?
as an archaeologist, i find this a veRY AWKWARD QUESTION
answer the question grave robber
I’m relatively sure it’s about a hundred years, although DO NOT QUOTE ME ON THAT. There are a few old graveyards in Ireland that archeologists are chomping at the bit to examine - (un)fortunately, they’re still in use, by which I mean the families are still burying their relatives there. Someone once told me (it’s entirely possible that I’m wrong, however) that they eventually came to some kind of agreement that the archeologists would be allowed to examine the graves after an agreed-upon time period - namely, a hundred years or so after the last individual was interred in said cemetery.
witch-with-a-dick:
australopithecusrex:
just-shower-thoughts:
How long does someone have to be dead before it’s considered archeology instead of grave robbing?
as an archaeologist, i find this a veRY AWKWARD QUESTION
answer the question grave robber
I’m relatively sure it’s about a hundred years, although DO NOT QUOTE ME ON THAT. There are a few old graveyards in Ireland that archeologists are chomping at the bit to examine - (un)fortunately, they’re still in use, by which I mean the families are still burying their relatives there. Someone once told me (it’s entirely possible that I’m wrong, however) that they eventually came to some kind of agreement that the archeologists would be allowed to examine the graves after an agreed-upon time period - namely, a hundred years or so after the last individual was interred in said cemetery.
