[frog_jerk_2004]

two years to try to pinpoint the final resting place

Not much of a final resting place if they are going to disturb the remains.

Question: Why aren't anthropologists considered "grave robbers"?

[Publius6961]

Question: Why aren't anthropologists considered "grave robbers"?

Same reason that tax collectors can't rightfully be called "muggers".
By definition, grave robbers have neither the permission of family or the authorities to do their thing.

D'OH!

[blam]

"Question: Why aren't anthropologists considered "grave robbers"?"

Anthropology: "The Study Of Man In Relation To Distribution, Origin, Classification, And Relationship Of Races, Physical Character, Environmental And Social Relations, And Culture."

You must be thinking about archaeologists? Anthropologists generally don't dig up anything from the earth.

[Coyoteman]

Question: Why aren't anthropologists considered "grave robbers"?

We have a good union.