Is It OK To Dig Up The Dead? | Mark Strauss | National Geographic | 7th April 2016

The skeleton in the laboratory is an object of science, but also the remains of a person — and respect for the dead, at least the in-group dead, is a mark of civilisation. Public anger over the desecration of Native American graves has taught archaeologists to treat new discoveries of human remains with much greater sensitivity. But should we also rebury the human remains held in museums and research labs?