Pennsylvania has laws concerning the desecration or destruction of
historic cemeteries, suggesting that either someone got their ducks in a
row or they are in violation of state law. The skeletal remains do not
appear to have been cleaned, tagged, or bagged.
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=1956&&leve
l=3&parentid=1875&css=L3&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true
Names of the research team appear in this article, but it was written
four years ago, so the people involved may have changed.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14309959&BRD=1678&PAG=461&dept
_id=39386&rfi=6
Details are sketchy.
Daniel B. Davis
Archaeologist Coordinator
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Division of Environmental Analysis
200 Mero Street
Frankfort, KY 40622
(502) 564-7250
-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bob
Genheimer
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 3:29 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Secrets of mass grave revealed
Interesting story, but certainly doesn't appear to be archaeology. My
view of their website indicates that these are amateur excavations by a
history professor and his reverend brother. I am troubled by any story
that starts with "we pulled a skull from the ground."
Bob Genheimer
George Rieveschl Curator of Archaeology
Cincinnati Museum Center
1301 Western Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45203
513-455-7161
513-455-7169 fax
-----Original Message-----
From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of geoff
carver
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:51 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Secrets of mass grave revealed
Interesting little report on a small piece of history: a mass grave,
possibly of Irish immigrant railway construction workers, possibly
victims
of cholera or cholera-induced anti-immigrant hysteria:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/foyle_and_west/79615
64.s
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