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Trench Warfare - the Politics of Archaeology

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3/3. Who Owns the Bones? One of the most intense debates about archaeology concerns the digging up and treatment of human remains in museum collections whether they are the aboriginal peoples of Australasia, black slaves excavated during the construction of a Manhattan office block or7th-century monks washed up on the shores of Ireland. Malcolm Billings asks how the needs of science can be reconciled with respect tor human dignity and cultural and political sensitivities. Producer Margaret Budy

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