The recommendations from the Human Remains Working Group has been made public yesterday (4 November 2003) on the repatriation of human remains from museums.
The recommendations from the Human Remains Working Group has been made public yesterday (4 November 2003) on the repatriation of human remains from museums.
Over the past 20 years there have been demands by indigenous groups for museums to return remains to be buried in their ancestral homeland.
In 2001 the Department of Culture, Media and Sport established a Working Group consider legislation to permit repatriation of the human remains and produce guidance on the care of remains and the handling of requests for their repatriation.
The new report recommends human remains advisory panel is set up with an independent expert selected by the Minister for Arts, Estelle Morris.
The report will be considered by the government to decide what actions will be taken to the return of remains.
Dr Robert Foley, Director and Reader in Evolutionary Anthropology at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge, said:
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