digging up graveyards?

[ih8censorship]

i know a popular archeology practice is to dig up graveyards. which kind of makes me wonder, how long will it before "current" graveyards are being dug up by scientists? the ones with our grandparents and other reletives are in.

scientist of the future :"hmm it appears that they discarded their dead in the boxes that they used to sleep in while they were alive. we dont understand why they buried their dead instead of converting them to soylent green, we belive it to be some sort of superstitious ritual to hide the dead and prolong the life of the currently living. we today with soylent green are much better off."

:lol: :eek:

[shunyadragon]

i know a popular archeology practice is to dig up graveyards. which kind of makes me wonder, how long will it before "current" graveyards are being dug up by scientists? the ones with our grandparents and other reletives are in.

scientist of the future :"hmm it appears that they discarded their dead in the boxes that they used to sleep in while they were alive. we dont understand why they buried their dead instead of converting them to soylent green, we belive it to be some sort of superstitious ritual to hide the dead and prolong the life of the currently living. we today with soylent green are much better off."

:lol: :eek:
This is an unlikely case for recent burials in the last two centuries, because the archeological interest in these graveyards would not be great. Archeological interest is with the unknown and the abundent historical records available in recent history just does not make recent gaveyards worth the effort even in the distant future. Many graveyards have been excavated and moved and found under the supervision of archeologists and soil scientists/geologists like myself during urban development and highway construction. I have been involved with a number of projects like this in the past. Some older finds like slave graveyards that were previously undocumented were of great interest.

These investigations and moving of remains were done with the greatest care and respect possible.

I have been infolved in a few discoveries of Native American gravesites in recentyears and can testify that a greater respect has been the SOP for more modern discoveries than the past.

[ih8censorship]

i wasent saying like in a hundred years... i was thinking more on the order of 1000 years, what theorys they will come up with on why dead people are full of formaldahyde and such.

is it really because their dead people that there moved with care? it seems that anything unearthed in an archeological dig is treated with care because of the "un replaceable"/fragile nature.