Before, the feedback over exhumations would be about misgivings over stirring up the past.
This year, the Bosnian Prosecutor's Office — one of the few institutions that rises above the quarrelling entities of Muslims, Serbs and Croats — took over jurisdiction of exhumations, thus streamlining the process of opening mass graves.
In October 2008 there was excitement over the exhumation, in the outskirts of Birmingham, of an eminent Victorian.
The decision by a Michigan judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the exhumation of the remains of George Gipp did nothing to quiet the main parties on either side of the case.
Mandela's widow Graca Machel has for the most part stayed clear of these rows.Mandla and Makaziwe have been at the centre of particularly bitter disputes in the past few years, most notably over the exhumation of bodies, including that of one of Mandela's sons, from a family burial plot.
Two distant cousins of George Gipp filed suit yesterday in a Michigan court against his great-nephew, ESPN, a biographer of Gipp's and several others over the exhumation last month of the remains of Gipp, the Notre Dame halfback who died in December 1920.
Exhumations can also tell us about the ailments of famous figures: fragments of Beethoven's skull, left over from a 19th-century exhumation, have suggested that his poor health may have been the result of lead poisoning, and tests on Cosimo Medici's bones showed he suffered from arthritis — not gout, as many historians had believed.
We find that exhumation rates have remained steady over the last glacial cycle and match rates observed at a million year timescale.
In contrast, the mudstone-rich damage zones may strengthen in the short term but develop weak structures over longer time periods, especially during exhumation.
In contrast, the mudstone-rich damage zones may strengthen in the short term but may develop weak structures over longer time periods, especially during exhumation.
