| Department for Culture, Media and Sport |
Consultation Document on Care of Historic Remains |
Ongoing |
Whether current laws relating to holding of human remains are sufficient, repatriation issues |
| English Heritage and The Church of England |
Guidance for best practice for treatment of human remains excavated from Christian burial grounds in England |
2005 |
Any Christian burial from 7th to 19th century in England. Recommendations on treatment of human remains from pre-excavation stages up to deposition |
| British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology and Institute of Field Archaeologists |
Guidelines to the standards for recording human remains |
2004 |
Standardisation of cataloguing human remains, age, sex, metric and pathological recording, as well as where and how to dispose of skeletal collections |
| Historic Scotland |
The treatment of human remains in archaeology |
2003 |
A policy statement on the legal and ethical position of treating human remains within Scottish Law |
| Cox (Institute of Field Archaeologists) |
Crypt archaeology: an approach |
2002 |
On logistics and health and safety of crypt excavations |
| English Heritage |
Human bones from archaeological sites: guidelines for producing assessment documents and analytical reports |
2002 |
Largely written for osteologists and postexcavation managers. Covers human bone assessments and assessment reports, as well as curation and storage |
| Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division |
Human remains in Irish archaeology: legal, scientific and ethical implications |
2000 |
The law, planning and development and ethics of excavating human remains in Ireland |
| Pugh-Smith and Samuels |
Archaeology in law |
1996 |
Legal aspects of archaeology, including the disturbance of human remains |
| Parker Pearson |
Ethics and the dead in British archaeology |
1995 |
The ethics of treatment of human remains in Britain |
| McKinley and Roberts (Institute of Field Archaeologists) |
Excavation and postexcavation treatment of cremated and inhumed human remains |
1993 |
The excavation, recording, lifting, sampling of inhumed and cremated remains, health and safety issues, cleaning, marking, packing dating, chemical and molecular analysis of human bone, as well as the sort of information a specialist can gain, statistics |
| Mays/ English Heritage |
Recommendations for processing human bone from archaeological sites |
1991 |
Largely processing of human remains following excavation (out of print) |
| World Archaeology Congress |
The Vermillion Accord – human remains: motion approved at the first intercongress on the disposal of the dead |
1989 |
General recommendations on the ethics of dealing with human remains |