Working Group on Human Remains Submissions
WGHR S1
Studying Native America: Problems and Perspectives (1998), Chapter 14 "Who Owns our Past?". Russell Thornton, Native American Repatriation Review Committee, Smithsonian Institution PDF (1.3mb).
Part ii of submission PDF (3.5mb)
Part iii of submission PDF (1.1mb)
Part iv of submission PDF(1.2mb)
WGHR S2
"Indigenous Australian People, Their Defence of the Dead and Native Title". Paul Turnbull, Associate Professor of History, James Cook University. PDF (1.2mb)
Part ii of submission PDF (881kb)
Part iii of submission PDF (816kb)
Part iv of submission PDF (493kb)
WGHR S4
Papers from "Exhibiting Human Remains" seminar, Sydney. Megan Hicks, Hon. Secretary, Health and Medicine Museums. PDF (1.2mb) (A special Interest Group of Museums Australia Inc).
Part ii of submission PDF (1.6mb)
Part iii of submission PDF (1.4mb)
Submission with attachments from Dawn Casey, Director, National Museum of Australia. PDF (205kb)
Part ii of submission PDF (775kb)
Part iii of submission PDF (175kb)
Part iv of submission PDF (937kb)
Part v of submission PDF (1.3mb)
Part vi of submission PDF (669kb)
Part vii of submission PDF (1.9mb)
Part viii of submission PDF (1.2mb)
"The Ethics of Displaying Human Remains from British Archaeological Sites". Hedley Swain, Head of Early London History and Collections, Museum of London. PDF (779kb)
WGHR S7
Submission by David C. Devenish, Hastings, Sussex. PDF (14kb)
WGHR S8
"Digging Up God's Acre". Masters Dissertation by Colin D S Hewat. PDF (91kb)
WGHR S9
"The Privacy of Tutankahamen - utilising the genetic information in stored tissue samples". Professor Soren Holm, Professor of Clinical Bioethics, University of Manchester.
WGHR S10
Policy Document from The National Museums of Scotland. PDF (19kb)
Part ii of submission PDF (843kb)
WGHR 11
Submission from Peter Pickering, London. PDF (16kb)
WGHR 12
Submission from Dr Joseph Evans, Archaeological Officer, Council for the Care of Churches [PDF (38kb)], on behalf of the Archbishops' Council of the Church of England.
WGHR 13
Submission from Dr S A Mays, English Heritage and University of Southampton. PDF (670kb)
WGHR 14
Submission from Kunani Nihipali, Head of Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai'i Nei [PDF (1.2mb)] (Group caring for the ancestors of Hawai'i).
Part ii of submission PDF (1.9kb)
WGHR 15
Letter from Phillip L Walker, Vice President, American Association of Physical Anthropologists [PDF (19kb)] together with "Bioarchaeological Ethics: A Historical Perspectie on the Value of Human Remains".
Part ii of submission PDF (2.6mb)
Part iii of submission PDF (2.4mb)
WGHR 16
"A F R Wollaston and the "Utakwa River Mountain Papuan" Skulls". Chris Ballard, fellow, The Australian National University. PDF (33kb)
Part ii of submission PDF (298kb)
Submission from Dr Paul Tapsell, Director, Auckland War Memorial Museum. PDF (29kb)
WGHR 19
Submission from Simon Ward, Secretary of The Association of Diocesan and Cathedral Archaeologists. PDF (764kb)
WGHR 20
Submission from Len Pole, Chair, Museum Ethnographers Group. PDF (18kb)
WGHR 2
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Submission from Piers Davies, Convenor, Auckland Sub Branch, Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association. PDF (38kb)
Part ii of submission PDF (104kb)
WGHR 22
Submission from U M O'Neil, London. PDF (30kb)
WGHR 23
Submission from Brian Connell and William J White, Museum of London Specialist Services. PDF (29kb)
WGHR 24
"Curation of Human Skeletal Remains - The Perspective of a Higher Education Research and Teaching Institution". Dr Holger Schutowski, Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford. PDF (1.7mb)
WGHR 25
Submission from Professor Margaret Cox, British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaelogy. PDF (131kb)
WGHR 26
Submission from M J Lowe, Deputy Secretary, The British Medical Association. PDF (34kb)
WGHR 27
Submission from Martin Petchey (Oxford Archaeological Associates Limited). PDF (485kb)
WGHR 28
Submission from Dr Richard Sullivan (Head of Clinical Programmes and Research Fellow UCL, Scientific Department, The Cancer Research Campaign). PDF (1.8mb)
WGHR 29
Submission from Neil G W Curtis, Senior Curator, Historic Collections Marischal Museum, University of Aberdeen. PDF (35kb)
WGHR 30
"Arches of radii, corridors of power: reflections on current archaeological practice". Colin Pardoe, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. PDF (44kb)
Part ii of submission PDF (22kb)
WGHR 31
Submission from Michael O'Hanlon, Director, Pitt Rivers Museum. PDF (25kb)
WGHR 32
Submission from Moira Simpson, Flinders University of South Australia. PDF (42kb)
WGHR 33
Submission from Geoff Clark, Chairman, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. PDF (1.9mb)
Part ii of submission PDF (1mb)
Part iii of submission PDF (1.1mb)
WGHR 34
Submission from Dr Graham Durant, Hunterin Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
WGHR 35
Submission from Michael Mansell, Legal Manager, Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre. PDF (2mb)
Part ii of submission PDF (1.1mb)
Part iii of submission PDF (1.5mb)
WGHR 36
"Care of Cultural Property", essay by Anna-Marie White, with comment from Maui Dalvanius Prime, Director of Mokomokai Education Trust. PDF (1.7mb)
WGHR 37
Submission from Professor Rosalie David, Keeper of Egyptology, The Manchester Museum. PDF (817kb)
WGHR 38
Submission from Dr Norman Macleod, Keeper of Palaeontology and John Jackson, Science Policy Coordinator, Natural History Museum. PDF (135kb)
Part ii of submission PDF (107kb)
WGHR 39
Submission from Dr Cressida Fforde, Institute of Archaeology, UCL. PDF (2.7mb)
WGHR 40
Submission from Jackie Tindill (University of Queensland, Australia). PDF (25kb)
Submission from Dr Peter Stone, Chief Executive Officer, World Archaeological Congress, International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. PDF (732kb)
Part ii of submission PDF (266kb)
WGHR 42
"Management of Aboriginal Skeletal Remains". Policy Document from the Museum Victoria. PDF (1.4mb)
WGHR 43
Submission from Professor Simon Hillson Institute of Archaeology, University College London. PDF (16kb)
WGHR 44
Submission from The Royal College of Surgeons of England. PDF (31kb)
WGHR 45
Submission from Te Paga Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand. PDF (182kb)
WGHR 46
Submission from Lyndel V Prott, Director, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Oranisation. PDF (1.5mb)
WGHR 47
Submission from Anna Southall, Director, National Museums & Galleries of Wales. PDF (23kb)
Part ii of submission PDF (13kb)
Part iii of submission PDF (31kb)
Related Information:
Conditions and refusals for WGHR submissions PDF (14kb)
Working Group on Human Remains Report
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