I don't understand what you mean? Why would pre-industrial Europeans not be indigenous? Because they (in Britain) partly displaced the previous Celtic inhabitants (who themselves had likely displaced others before them)?
Yes, the Americans and Australians should ask before taking British remains from Britain away for research in their labs. I don't see where the research is conducted but there isn't any mention of collaboration with the UK so this would involve exporting the remains.
I mean, I agree they need permission, but it’s at least a little ironic…
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When Netflix depicts indigenous European as POC, is that Blackface or Historical Accuracy or both? I am confused.
I don't want to start a holy war, I understand sentimentality. But if you dug up my great grandfathers great grandfather then honestly I have absolutely no connection to the man and his body could be anywhere on earth. It's not my property and despite sharing some of my genes it's part of the earth at that point.
What once was a man merely returned to the atoms and microbes of the planet that bore it.
Otherwise the whole planet is a gravesite and we cannot farm/build or exist without unintentionally desecrating graves.
>What once was a man merely returned to the atoms and microbes of the planet that bore it.
Bones last for centuries, millennia, and longer. In fact bones are the very thing we are discussing (in the form of teeth), and they are obviously very much intact beyond your arbitrary 3 generation cutoff. So while your sentiment may be noble and erudite, it's not relevant at all.
However after 8 generations there is already so little connection left, keeping in mind 8 generations is roughly 160-240 years.
Yes, we are sentimental creatures, however if we hold that human remains are permanently sacred then we will run out of habitable space on the planet if we continue to bury our dead.
Fine, clear it with an ethics committee, be open about what you're doing and debate the implications. But asking the descendants? That's not practical.
For the record, I've never conducted research on indigenous people - and have no plans to.
You ask the government.
>"Held in a number of departments for display and research, over 6,000 human remains are in the care of the Museum"
https://www.britishmuseum.org/our-work/departments/human-rem...
