{"id":1497,"date":"2010-04-06T09:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2010-04-06T21:04:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T03:04:45","slug":"avebury-pagan-remains-to-remain-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Avebury Pagan Remains to Remain on Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although some British Pagans have demanded <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NAGPRA\">NAGPRA<\/a>-style reburial for Neolithic (and thus &#8220;Pagan&#8221; in some sense) human remains found at the famous ceremonial site of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avebury-web.co.uk\/\"> Avebury<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english-heritage.org.uk\/server\/show\/nav.19819\">English Heritage have decided against doing so<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These Neolithic human remains were excavated in the Avebury area by  Alexander Keiller between 1929 and 1935. In 2006, Paul Davies of the  Council of British Druid Orders requested their reburial. English  Heritage and the National Trust followed the recently-published DCMS  process in considering this request, and went out to public consultation  in 2009 on a draft report which set out the evidence and different  options.<\/p>\n<p>English Heritage and the National Trust have now published a report  on the results of this consultation, and a second report on the results  of a public opinion survey. Our summary report concludes that the  request should be refused for four main reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the benefit to future understanding likely to result from not  reburying the remains far outweighs the harm likely to result from not  reburying them;<\/li>\n<li>it does not meet the criteria set out by the DCMS for considering  such requests;<\/li>\n<li>not reburying the remains is the more reversible option;<\/li>\n<li>the public generally support the retention of prehistoric human  remains in museums, and their inclusion in museum displays to increase  understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect that the <a href=\"http:\/\/archaeopagans.blogspot.com\/\">Pagans for Archaeology<\/a> group will be pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although some British Pagans have demanded NAGPRA-style reburial for Neolithic (and thus &#8220;Pagan&#8221; in some sense) human remains found at the famous ceremonial site of Avebury, English Heritage have decided against doing so. These Neolithic human remains were excavated in the Avebury area by Alexander Keiller between 1929 and 1935. In 2006, Paul Davies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-england"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-o9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1180,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1180","url_meta":{"origin":1497,"position":0},"title":"Hutton Named English Heritage Commissioner","author":"Chas S. 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Excavation within the Henge will focus on the surface of what is\u00a0thought to be one of the oldest houses in Britain,\u00a0a Neolithic building revealed during earlier\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/1\/590x\/secondary\/Aerial-view-of-the-dig-site-306010.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/1\/590x\/secondary\/Aerial-view-of-the-dig-site-306010.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/1\/590x\/secondary\/Aerial-view-of-the-dig-site-306010.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":34,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=34","url_meta":{"origin":1497,"position":2},"title":"Solstice at the Stones","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 30, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Archaeology magazine got around to noting the contemporary Pagan use of Stonehenge and Avebury circles. The link will give you an abstract of the article; the full version is print-only.","rel":"","context":"In \"England\"","block_context":{"text":"England","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=england"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=236","url_meta":{"origin":1497,"position":3},"title":"'Give it up to the\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"'Give it up to the Goddess' I confess that I had not looked at Eurotrash's blog for a while, so I missed this account of her summer solstice trip to Avebury. It is safe to say that it provides a certain balance to the stories told by some friends who\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6366,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6366","url_meta":{"origin":1497,"position":4},"title":"Back to the Neolithic: Building a British Long Barrow","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"March 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Some \"experiential archaeology\" \u2014 yes, it will hold the cremated remains of modern people. \"It's strange really. We haven't built a long barrow for 5,000 years, but then about six weeks ago we had another enquiry for one. \"They want a burial chamber built in central London to hold some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/73724000\/jpg\/_73724436_dsc_0198.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/73724000\/jpg\/_73724436_dsc_0198.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/73724000\/jpg\/_73724436_dsc_0198.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/73724000\/jpg\/_73724436_dsc_0198.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6275,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6275","url_meta":{"origin":1497,"position":5},"title":"The Scary Countryside 2: Children of the Stones","author":"Chas S. 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