Commercial cemeteries! Aha! That is a different world, brethren.
Archaeologists deal with churchyards, private gravesites, and isolated
burials. Here in Delaware, we have a cozy little model developed by
archaeologists, that effectively states that any cemetery will contain
unmarked graves, which are under the jurisdiction of the unmarked burials
committee. A prominent but elderly lawyer, who was not on top of the change
in the law, suggested that a graveyard with a single marker could be
"moved" by translating a tombstone and a shovel of dirt to another site. We
observed sevral grave depressions nearby and notified the authorities. The
landowner ended up paying to move about 40 unmarked graves through the good
offices of an archaeological consultant.
 
As for the archaeological method of using coathangers and Coke bottles, it
works!
 
 
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