Grave Robbing

How are we supposed to know where all of the graves are? When they were putting a new highway in my town they found out they were building over graves when they had to dig to even the slope and found remains of Native Americans from so long ago. They had to stop, dig all of it up, and move everything to a known burial ground. So I drive over old graves daily.

Cairo is built on top of old graves....everything is. Besides who knows, you might have inhaled the cremated remains of someone. HOW DARE YOU!!!!!!!

 

We would be nowhere if man had never cut open a dead body and studied it. What is the problem, if there is no one left to care? Where is the harm?

Do tell, what is the proper thing to do, according to the Book of Tom? Because I see that it is your way or the highway...

You post threads asking for debate, but what you really want is to preach...

Tipsy, yes, there are people's graves I would dance on.

 

There is a difference in what you have said, to the context in which I said what I did.

 

Because you believe that if someone doesn't agree with you then they are just preaching?

You just took this from a discussion of the issue, not me.

 

Because I think you are just trying to intimidate, not debate. With "lol", eye rolling smiley, and avoiding questions. You talk to people like they are idiots. Does that work for you in real life? If people walk away disgusted, did you win?



I still have my opinion, so it's not working on me.

 

Not once have I told you that you should not have your own opinion. The fact that when asked to support your opinion, you resort to personal attacks is sad, as it eliminates the point of having a discussion.

Oh, and I only talk to some of the people like they are idiots...

 

Why don't you two get a room and work it out


Hotwater

 

Oh, BARF...

 

When no decendents are left who remember the deceased, who would complain to politicians about what is going on.

 

The confusion is amplified as anthropology and archaeology are being combined as one topic. Even palaeontology is touched on.

If viewed from a scientific stand, then all of the above should be done as they allow the gathering and confirmation of speculative data to be validated.

From a moral stand, it is not so clear. The first known pathology done on humans (autopsy) were done by Egyptians around 3000BC, so then is the argument that they had already been violated valid.

The removal or artefacts is another area again, does that violate the person or does it only violate the tomb, grave, crypt. Again depends on how you view a violation.

Palaeontology is done at really all levels as we also feel free to dissect and probe anything else we find that was once a living organism at any place that is exhumed.

The actual bodies themselves are not only removed but studied to find answers that we seek.

The laws have changed as far as what is permissible and technically that should mean that all digs are controlled. At what cost, I am personally not sure. For those who feel that it is an invasion or desecration on their departed, the cost is too high.

Perhaps "our" need to know is the problem.

Maybe the question is how much "more" we think we need to know.

Each time we touch a site it also then adds to the mix historians, sociologists, ideologists............the list is endless.