Repatriation

>>3056489
who cares? their dead.
A lot of them weren't even found in proper graves. They were just on the ground somewhere then got covered by weathered rocks and dust overtime

>>3056489
>letting nationalist romanticism get in the way of science
Disgusting.

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I'd say erect a cenotaph, but I can just imagine a modernist inscription with some inane, vapid attempt at Romanticism written on it.

>>3056489
No nations and borders are a social construct the only observable fact is that we all share the same planet.

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>>3056511
So something like this?

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>>3056536
It would be Cenotaph Kino if they erected a stone Pillar with a single blown hands on it.

Prove me wrong

Those choices aren't mutually exclusive. Most of the time, when things get repatriated, the origin country intends on putting the remains in a museum or doing research on them. Even in cases when reburial is planned, most of the time all the research that will happen has already taken place, and the bones were never intended to be on display anyway.

But as far as the issue in general goes, if people want remains back, I'm okay with the idea of giving them back. Archaeology needs to have better relationships with descent communities and places where research happens. And no, it isn't an issue of "getting in the way of science." Descent communities pretty much all want research to be done on remains that are excavated, they just like having a say in how that's done, which is pretty reasonable considering how things used to be.

>>3056549
Would it be just anyone's hand, or the leader/ambassador of the community where it was found?

>>3056489
I remember reading about a dried out corpse of a Paleolithic woman in the Sahara desert with two children who'd perished as well. Whoever buried them threw flowers into the grave.

I wonder how their kin would feel knowing the grave was disturbed.

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>>3056549
Why not a replica of the remains and a description?

>>3056581
They feel dead.

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>>3056583
Reminds me of the old Transi tombs
>>3056564
I'd argue local religious leader, since any intentional burial of a hominid likely involved some primitive religious sentiment

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>>3056606
Creepy shit, but I like it. Also, that sounds like a pretty good idea, all things considered.

>>3056489
They're dead. Whoever knew them personally who still lives ultimately gets the say but past that they're objects. The soul has departed.

>>3056498
>their dead
No, they're OUR dead