Topic 3: Displaying, Storing and Living with the Dead

Agarwal, Sabrina C. 2026. “The Future of Human Remains Collections: Moving Toward Ethical Treatment, Accountability, and Antiracist Practice.” Annual Review of Anthropology, ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-041224-022028.

Bradbury, Jennie. 2025. Death and Burial within the Ancient Levant (4500-550 BCE): Challenging the Normative. Routledge. (Chapter 10 only)

Francis, Errol, Chloe Asker, and Victoria Tischler. 2025. “Testing Ethical Disagreement on Ancestral Human Remains in Museums.” International Journal of Cultural Property 32 (4): 355–64. Cambridge Core. https://doi.org/10.1017/S094073912610023X.

Gregoricka, Lesley A. 2023. “The Ethics of Excavating: Bioarchaeology and the Case for Rehabilitating Legacy Human Skeletal Collections in the Near East.” Levant 55 (3): 294–303. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2023.2278287.

Peyroteo-Stjerna, Rita, and Mari Tõrv. 2026. “Beyond Bones: How Biomolecular Archaeology Is Challenging the Definition of Ancient Human Remains and Its Ethical Implications.” World Archaeology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2026.2632228.

Stutz, Liv Nilsson. 2016. “To Gaze Upon the Dead: The Exhibition of Human Remains as Cultural Practice and Political Process in Scandinavia and the USA.” In Archaeologists and the Dead: Mortuary Archaeology in Contemporary Society, edited by Howard Williams, Melanie Giles, Howard Williams, and Melanie Giles. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753537.003.0021.

Croucher, Karina. 2017. “Keeping the Dead Close: Grief and Bereavement in the Treatment of Skulls from the Neolithic Middle East.” Mortality. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2017.1319347.

Croucher, Karina, Lindsey Büster, Jennifer Dayes, et al. 2021. “Archaeology and Contemporary Death: Using the Past to Provoke, Challenge and Engage.” PLOS ONE 15 (12): e0244058. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244058.

Luckhurst, R., 2025. Graveyards. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691291574-002 (pages 73-81).

Squires, Kirsty, Dario Piombino-Mascali, Clara Urzì, and Damien Huffer. 2026. “The Real Mummy’s Curse: Health Risks Associated with the Sale and Trade of Mummified Remains.” International Journal of Cultural Property 33: e22. Cambridge Core. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0940739126100393.

Young, Craig, and Duncan Light. 2016. “Interrogating Spaces of and for the Dead as ‘Alternative Space’: Cemeteries, Corpses and Sites of Dark Tourism.” International Review of Social Research 6 (2): 61–72. https://doi.org/10.1515/irsr-2016-0009.