Biographies of ordinary medieval residents

Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the "biographies" of hundreds of the city's ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail.*

Such research would be impossible in the US, due to the law NAGPRA which declares that any indigenous religion or nationalism trumps science and history.

Indigenous people are entitled to the same rights as anyone else, including to practice their religions, but it does not follow that the wishes suggested by their religions should be our commands.