This has little to do with the study of "cemetery middens," but...

    While on vacation in Canada, my wife and I found some human bones
exposed across the road from a small town cemetery.  I happen to have
relatives buried in this particular graveyard.  I dutifully reported the
bones to the police.  They collected the remains from the surface and I
went home the next day.  Later efforts to find out what happened with
them were not very successful.  I envisioned at least some kind of
archaeological treatment to recover all the bones and find out where
they belonged.  For months, I kept checking the local newspaper online
to read what I thought would surely make a juicy local news story.
Nothing ever appeared.
    Returning a year later, I finally found out that the area in
question was used to pile excess dirt from the excavation of new
graves.  Needless to say, it is not supposed to be the practice in a
modern Canadian cemetery to punch through an old burial while digging a
new grave.  It probably means somebody screwed up somewhere.  Finally, I
began to get it.  The low-key approach to the incident seemed (in my
opinion) to stem from political motives...nobody wanted to make a big
deal about the old bones because somebody might get in trouble over it.
I can't really say that I blame them.  I decided not to pursue finding
out anything more about the case.
    Of course, I went back to look at the scene of the crime.  You
guessed it...more bone was visible in the same area.  This time, I
reacted more anthropologically than archaeologically.  I didn't bother
to report it.

Requiescat in Pace,
Robert Douglass