Scientific Outputs (journal articles, book chapters and special issues)
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2026). Mänskliga kvarlevor, samlande, och repatriering. Dagens situation i Sverige i ett internationellt perspektiv. In: Drugge, A.-L., G. Fur, and J. M. Nordin (eds.), Marken, vattnet, tankarna – Konsekvenser för samer av svensk politik (SOU 2026:15), 457-480.
Nilsson Stutz, L., Crescenzi, N., Peyroteo Stjerna, R., Tōrv, M., Coneller, C. (eds.) (2025). Emerging Ethical Challenges of Human Remains, a World Archaeology Special Issue. World Archaeology, Volume 57, Issue 2, p. 125-233.
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2025). Archaeology and the next modern Prometheus. Anticipating future ethical challenges in the care for human remains in collections and research. World Archaeology, 57(2), 125–135. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2026.2706971
Peyroteo-Stjerna, R., & Tõrv, M. (2025). Beyond bones: how biomolecular archaeology is challenging the definition of ancient human remains and its ethical implications. World Archaeology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2026.2632228
Nilsson Stutz, L., Peyroteo Stjerna, R. and Tarlow, R. (2024). Ethical entanglements: human remains, museums and ethics in a European perspective. Antiquity.
Tarlow, S. (2023). The Names of the Dead: Identity, Privacy and the Ethics of Anonymity in Exhibiting the Dead Body. Public Archaeology, 1-23.
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2023). Between Objects of Science and Lived Lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research. International Journal of Heritage Studies.
Reviews and Academic Debate
Nilsson Stutz, L. and Peyroteo Stjerna, R. (2024). Comminssioned comment on A. Källén, C. Mulcare, A. Nyblom, and D. Strand: Petrous Fever. The Gap between Ideal and Actual Practice in Ancient DNA Research. Preprint article, Comments and Reply can be accessed here.
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2024). Trish Biers & Katie Stringer Clary (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death. New York 2024. 584 p. ISBN 978-1-003- 19587-0 (e-book). Fornvännen 119 (3), 155-157.
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2023). Comment on Anderson, J. and S. Atalay Repatriation as Pedagogy. Current Anthropology 64(6).
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2022). Theorizing bioarchaeology. By Geller, Pamela L., 2021. Springer, bioarchaeology and social theory series, 148 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-70702-6. $140/$109 (hardback/e-book). American Journal of Biological Anthropology.
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2021). Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer. Repatriation and Erasing the Past (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020, xii and 265pp., 24 figs, 5 tables, hbk, ISBN 9781683401575, pdf ISBN 9781683401858). European Journal of Archaeology, 24(4), 575-578. doi:10.1017/eaa.2021.43
Podcasts and Recordings
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2024). Archaeodeath Interview by Howard Williams: Archaeothanatology: Interpretation and Ethics, with Liv Nilsson Stutz
Crescenzi, N. (2024). Human Remains and Privacy – A Contemporary Bias? – Privacy Studies Podcast. Recorded at the symposium Privacy and Death: Past and Present.
Nilsson Stutz, L. and Peyroteo Stjerna, R. (2024) The New Frontiers of Postmortem Privacy: Negotiating the Research Ethics of Human Remains in the Era of the Third Science Revolution in Archaeology – Privacy Studies Podcast. Recorded at the symposium Privacy and Death: Past and Present.
Nilsson Stutz, L., Torv, M., Tarlow, S., Peyroteo Stjerna, R., Mickleburgh, H., Crescenzi, N., Renshaw, L., and Fuentes, A. (2024) What are the next challenges for the professional ethics of human remains? – a round table discussion at the EAA meetings in Rome. Please note that the file is unaltered and the recording starts at 39 minutes:
Public Scholarship
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2024). Mänskliga kvarlevor. Hur ska de som finns i skolor hanteras? Bi-lagan 2024(2), pp. 16-17.
Nilsson Stutz, L. 2023. Maa Kheru – can you hear me? First Monograph of Christian Kosmas Mayer, Phileas, Vienna.
Nilsson Stutz, L. & J. Geber (2022). Att återlämna kvarlevor kan berika forskningen. Forskarkommentar i Forskning och Framsteg, published 2022-05-17.
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2022). Att ställa ut människor. Ikaros, 22:1.
Nilsson Stutz, L. (2021) Namnbyte är att smita från ansvaret. Forskarkommentar i Forskning och Framsteg, published 2021-11-03.
