Respect for Ancient British Human Remains Conference
A conference organised by The Manchester Museum (University of Manchester) and Honouring the Ancient Dead, supported by the Museums Association .
This conference was held at Manchester Museum on 17th November 2006. You can access the conference description, details of speakers, and the titles of the papers from this page. Our intention is to have all the papers which were delivered at the conference available on this website. Some of them are already available, and you can access them from here. The rest will be put onto the website as soon as possible.
For any questions or comments, please contact:
Piotr Bienkowski
Deputy Director, Collections and Academic Engagement
Professor of Archaeology and Museology
Manchester Museum, University of Manchester
Email: piotr.a.bienkowski@manchester.ac.uk
Direct line: 0161 275 8760
- Conference Programme (PDF 32Kb)
- "Persons, Things and Archaeology: Contrasting World-views of Minds, Bodies and Death" (44Kb) - Piotr Bienkowski, University of Manchester
- "Human Remains: The Acknowledgment of Sanctity" (PDF 35Kb) - Emma Restall Orr, Honouring the Ancient Dead
- "Bog Bodies: Representing the Dead" (PDF 63Kb) - Melanie Giles, University of Manchester
- "Museums and Human Remains" (PDF 36Kb) - Sarah Levitt and Laura Hadland, Leicester City Museums
- Respectful Treatment and Reburial: A Practical Guide (PDF 68Kb) - Emma Restall Orr, Honouring the Ancient Dead, and Piotr Bienkowski, University of Manchester
