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Exhuming you ancesters' grave.

Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:58 am
by AndrewA
After Watching a couple of meet the ancestors combined with the latest reports from skeleton found in Jamestown re canabalism, and the amazing lifelike reconstruction, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22362831, I was thinking how this would easily solve the problems of not knowing what our ancestors looked like.

So how does one go about exhuming graves? :shock: Maybe a new surge of grave robbing for skulls will emerge, in this ever increasing interest in our past, along with the commercial aspect then who knows, it may become a national project undertaken by some company or agency.

The way technology is progressing, it may even be possible to scan the contents of the coffin without even digging it up, now that would be cool.

Re: Exhuming you ancesters' grave.

Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 1:22 pm
by Northern Lass
Omg ......they better not dig me up and do a "lookalike" without making me
2 stone lighter! :cry:

Not sure bout that Andrew like the idea of knowing what they looked like
but ethics and all that................. :?

Re: Exhuming you ancesters' grave.

Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 1:43 pm
by snoopysue
Northern Lass wrote:Omg ......they better not dig me up and do a "lookalike" without making me
2 stone lighter! :cry:

Not sure bout that Andrew like the idea of knowing what they looked like
but ethics and all that................. :?


I'll probably be cremated, so it'll take quite a few years to develop technology that can put me back together - especially as the DNA will be gone!

Re: Exhuming you ancesters' grave.

Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 9:44 am
by MarkCDodd
If they dug me up they would claim I was the missing link.

Re: Exhuming you ancesters' grave.

Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 10:16 pm
by grangers14
I think it sounds good in a strange way... :?

I dont mind what they do with me when I pass away, anything thats cheap!
Jo :)