How long before people think it is ok to go into someones grave? 100 years 200, 800,?
2007-12-01 10:39:03 · 17 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To those of us with Native American blood, the answer would be, "The color of the person doing the digging." It's OK for a white archaeologist to dig up Native remains, but let a Cherokee scholar go into a Civil War cemetery and start exhuming bodies and the manure would definitely hit the oscillating cooling device.
So I guess my answer to your question would be, "The standards that the scientific community applies to the exhumation of Native remains should also be the standards by which Natives are permitted to exhume non-Native bodies." If you dig up my great-grandmother, I ought to be able to dig up yours.
2007-12-01 11:01:10 · answer #1 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I actually feel it's grave robbing no matter what the circumstance. I also don't believe these people should be disturbing those Egyptian Tombs either. They are meant to be sacred resting places and they're disturbing them. Some of these archeolgists die after going into them, and I also believe that when that happens they're been cursed for disturbing them. I'm not Muslim or anything like that, but that is just my belief. I think the dead should be left alone and they only way they should be bothered is if they have to exume a body for further dna testing to solve a mystery, like the ex-wife of Drew Peterson deal.
2007-12-01 17:48:25 · answer #2 · answered by Wutz it worth 2 ya? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Archaeologists are motivated mostly by a desire to increase understanding of historical events whilst grave robbers are almost solely motivated by greed for personal wealth.
2007-12-01 10:44:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Grave robbers dig up graves of known people.
Archaeologists dig up graves to find out who's
buried there.
2007-12-01 10:47:29 · answer #4 · answered by J Maime 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once someones family is gone for many generations...it is ok. They are not around anymore. The Kennawick man should not be kept away from science. He isn't even native, he was found to be European.
2007-12-01 11:20:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes very little.
Archeologists tend to show more respect for the dead, aren't doing it for monetary gain, and cause as little damage as possible.
2007-12-01 11:03:40 · answer #6 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most grave robbers don't get grants.
2007-12-01 10:42:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I believe as said earlier, it is intent.
2007-12-01 10:44:45 · answer #8 · answered by electroprayer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the motivations,I would say.
2007-12-01 10:45:35 · answer #9 · answered by Serena 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could not pay me enough to do either. ewww
2007-12-01 10:43:34 · answer #10 · answered by bete noire Carpe Noctum 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋