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The reburial issue in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gabriel Moshenska
Gabriel Moshenska*
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*Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK (Email: g.moshenska@ucl.ac.uk)
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The dead are back. Like a horde of irritating poltergeists the human remains of the ancients have returned to harass us in the form of the reburial issue; perennial source of postcolonial guilt and undergraduate seminar material. Only this time there is an unusual twist: the remains in question are British. The Council of British Druid Orders (CoBDO) has requested the reburial of a specific group of prehistoric human remains from the collection of the Alexander Keiller Museum. In response English Heritage have carried out a consultation, amidst considerable publicity and public debate (Hole 2008).

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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 321 , September 2009 , pp. 815 - 820
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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