Archaeology and the conflicts
Thesis: The excavation of human remains has been a conflict of ethicality and morality between archaeologist and the people of the cultures of which they are excavating.
Archaeologist have had trouble excavating the remains of certain cultures. Many cultures do not want their ancestors graves being desecrated.
According to a documentary about the NAGPRA “When Public Law 101-601, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), was passed in 1990… The law made it flatly illegal to traffic in Native American skulls and bones; prohibited digging up Native American graves on federal or "tribal" land” (Mann 1)
This quote speaks of how it became a law to not traffic Native Americans body parts and
Thesis: The excavation of human remains has been a conflict of ethicality and morality between archaeologist and the people of the cultures of which they are excavating.
Archaeologist have had trouble excavating the remains of certain cultures. Many cultures do not want their ancestors graves being desecrated.
According to a documentary about the NAGPRA “When Public Law 101-601, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), was passed in 1990… The law made it flatly illegal to traffic in Native American skulls and bones; prohibited digging up Native American graves on federal or "tribal" land” (Mann 1)
This quote speaks of how it became a law to not traffic Native Americans body parts and