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SUMMARY:The Sutherland Nine and the Community: Archaeological and Heritage
  Perspectives from the Sutherland Reburials Project\, South Africa - Micha
 ela Heale (University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:The Sutherland Nine refers to nine individuals whose bodies we
 re found to have been unethically obtained in the early 20th century to th
 e University of Cape Town’s skeletal collections. Detailed records were 
 kept that helped a team of researchers identify who they were and from whe
 re they were taken. The Sutherland Reburials Project was formed and\, with
  the blessing and encouragement of some of their surviving descendants\, t
 he team was able to investigate the individuals through a number of means\
 , in order to restore some of their agency and dignity that a racist and c
 olonial academia of the past had attempted to strip from them.\nThe Suther
 land Nine were eventually laid to rest once again in 2023\, exactly 100 ye
 ars after they were first disturbed. This project highlights the importanc
 e of community stakeholders in the practice of archaeology and heritage\, 
 and how we as its practitioners can provide justice for the wrongdoings of
  our academic forebears\, helping communities engage with a history that h
 ad previously been denied to them by colonial and Apartheid governments an
 d institutions.\n\nMichaela is a 2nd year PhD student here at the Universi
 ty of Cambridge\, having previously studied at the University of Cape Town
 \, South Africa. She was a member of the Sutherland Reburials Project as a
 n undergraduate researcher for the archaeology team\, under the supervisio
 n of Prof. Simon Hall. She now investigates computational models of human-
 environment interaction in Neolithic Mediterranean Africa\, but continues 
 to have a keen interest in public engagement in archaeology and heritage.
  
LOCATION:Garrod Seminar Room\, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Rese
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