{"id":43334,"date":"2022-10-07T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=43334"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:41:07","slug":"prof-shawn-grahams-research-desecrated-human-skulls-are-being-sold-on-social-media-in-uks-unregulated-bone-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2022\/prof-shawn-grahams-research-desecrated-human-skulls-are-being-sold-on-social-media-in-uks-unregulated-bone-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Shawn Graham&#8217;s Research: Desecrated Human Skulls Are Being Sold on Social Media in Uk\u2019s Unregulated Bone Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Prof. Shawn Graham&#8217;s Research: Desecrated Human Skulls Are Being Sold on Social Media in Uk\u2019s Unregulated Bone Trade\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><em>Live Science <\/em>has published an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/human-skulls-desecrated-uk-human-remains-trade\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/human-skulls-desecrated-uk-human-remains-trade\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of History<\/a> Professor <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/shawn-graham\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shawn Graham<\/a>&#8216;s research on human remains trafficked online:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Human skulls are pierced with coffin nails and human bones are turned into Ouija board pieces; almost nothing is off-limits in the U.K.&#8217;s thriving online human remains trade, a <em>Live Science<\/em> investigation has found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/human-skulls-desecrated-uk-human-remains-trade\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More about Professor Graham&#8217;s research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/story\/innovative-historian-studies-the-sale-of-human-remains-on-the-internet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Skulls for Sale<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2015\/10\/researching-the-red-market-in-the-digital-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Researching a Red Market in the Digital Age<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Science has published an article on Department of History Professor Shawn Graham&#8216;s research on human remains trafficked online: Human skulls are pierced with coffin nails and human bones are turned into Ouija board pieces; almost nothing is off-limits in the U.K.&#8217;s thriving online human remains trade, a Live Science investigation has found. 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