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Burial land is running low in certain parts of the world. It’s about time we started to consider the environmental cost of our final resting place.
The Civil War – the second-most-deadly event in US history, just behind COVID-19 –contributed to lasting changes in how Americans care for the dead.
Promoting and practicing ethical research that includes the people who live in the area today is as important to the archaeological team as learning more about the lives of the ancient inhabitants.
Satellite imagery can help to get data in fragile, crisis-affected situations.
As cremation grounds struggle to keep up with the long line of people dying from COVID-19, age-old customs are being pushed aside.
City cemeteries are fast running out of space, so researchers surveyed Australians and found many were quite open to the alternatives to traditional burials.
The former justice received a Jewish funeral at the Supreme Court. But in other ways, Ginsburg’s burial is breaking with traditional Jewish death rituals.
Municipalities are now forced to identify new cemetery planning methods and models that are environmentally sensitive and consistent with diverse cultural practices, and facilitate social cohesion.
From burial sites targeted by grave robbers to disposing of ashes at sea, the job of disposing of the unclaimed dead has a rich history. Sadly, it still goes on today and is on the rise.
Funerals, as we know them, will regrettably but necessarily be another of our social rituals that must radically alter in the short-term.
With space in our cemeteries running out, we could bury the dead in new forest developments that would bring green space to our urban areas.
In remote Northern Territory, most Aboriginal people have been buried in unmarked graves. Archaelogists are carrying out painstaking detective work to help communities find their loved ones’ remains.
New research has rubbished perceptions of Roman Britain as a region inhabited solely by white Europeans.
If no one claims the remains of cult leader and killer Charles Manson, it’s unclear what will happen to his body. Will it find an anonymous California grave or face dissection in an anatomy lab?
Torcs found in the Staffordshire hills can reveal a lot about Iron Age society.
Most big city cemeteries in Australia date back to the 1800s, so we need to consider our burial options before we reach the point when the number of deaths exceeds the available cemetery plots.
Thankfully, defleshing bones has fallen out of fashion.
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Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Claire Smith is a Friend of The Conversation.
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