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2025-04-23 Science & Technology

Archaeologists unexpectedly uncover hundreds of skeletons, medieval church beneath university campus

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11168 views ] Top

#1 Kinda standard for American Indian boarding schools.

"Kill the Indian, save the man"

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-22 17:28|| 2025-04-22 17:28|| Front Page Top

#2 all reports of dead Indians at Canada school were incorrect.
Trying to use use today's morals to comment on people of previous centuries is wrong. We have fewer morals today!

Posted by Old Salty 2025-04-23 14:11|| 2025-04-23 14:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm sure Netflix is already started on the documentary.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-04-23 14:14|| 2025-04-23 14:14|| Front Page Top

#4 New York Times
"No human remains found 2 years after claims of ‘mass graves’ in Canada"

Posted by Old Salty 2025-04-23 14:19|| 2025-04-23 14:19|| Front Page Top

#5 They took it seriously.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-23 16:21|| 2025-04-23 16:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Surprising to the archaeologists, no doubt. Local church historians can probably name many of those buried there and related their tales, if only the academics had bothered to ask.

Well, unfortunately during the various English Civil Wars a lot of churches _and their records_ were destroyed both during the war and during the decade previous, in the 1640's. There were several waves' worth, starting with Henry VIII and they kept up, on and off, for several generations.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2025-04-23 19:05|| 2025-04-23 19:05|| Front Page Top

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