The new centrality that human re-mains acquire when they are exposed to the public eye after their exhumation is ambiva-lent. The ethnography presented in this article is about Navarra and illustrates the different meanings attributed to exhumed remains. It focuses on the body as proof, as an artifact, on the body adopted under a fictitious identity, or seen as medium or as a limit to the settling of responsibilities. It shows how concrete experi-ences of «truth» are used as a regime of proof in a wide variety of ways between and within con-texts. These experiences are supported by the different marks that articulate contradictory and complementary registers. Sources of knowl-edge are forensic, archival, local. Mobilizations can be collective or privilege individual mourn-ing, and affective and political registers are in-termingled. The analysis shows that different forms of appeasement are in tension between two polarities: on the one hand, discursivity and, on the other, the materiality of the remains.