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Authors
You, Sen
Ren, Meng
Sun, Li
Wang, Anqi
Wang, Long
Zhang, Quanchao
Wang, Qian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3303-1183
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Jilin University (2023QNTD12)
National Social Science Fund of China (23VLS007, 23VRC034,19AKG005)
Texas A and M University (T3)
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Article History
Received: 7 November 2024
Accepted: 11 February 2025
First Online: 24 February 2025
Declarations
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: In China, there have been no universal written ethical statements for using prehistoric and historic human remains in research. However, prehistoric and historic human remains are protected by the Protection Law of Cultural Relics of People’s Republic of China (ratified 1982, last revised 2017) and Regulations of Field Archaeology Issued by the Chinese National Bureau of Cultural Relics (2009) as irreversible material remains. All excavations and curatorial practices of cultural relics including human remains must be approved by National and/or regional Bureaus of Cultural Relics. The permit for excavation automatically grants the excavators and curators the right to study excavated cultural relics including human remains. Human remains studied in this research were excavated by the Academy of Turfanology at Turpan University, and curated in the Bioarcheology Lab, School of Archaeology at Jilin University. This research is conducted with discretion to ethical and scientific considerations.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
