Week 3

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.