Section outline

    • 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.