Hi all:
 
I was having an electronic conversation with somebody the other day, and
somewhere along the way I made the point that EuroAmerican attitudes toward
human skeletal remains have changed in the past forty years or so. I only
have anecdotal evidence for this--I'm referring to stories about 'moving
graveyards' which involved moving the grave stone alone or using a bucket
auger to get a little bone out to give to the survivors or the disastrous
farming policy of fence-row to fence-row plowing when lots of gravestones
were simply taken away and discarded. I argued that that is less likely to
happen now. Does anybody know of anthro research in the last few years that
would support (or even dispute) this notion?
 
thanks
 
kris
Kris Hirst
Office of the State Archaeologist
The University of Iowa
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