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Sapiens
DECEMBER 4, 2024
In early 2024, Spain’s culture minister announced that the nation would overhaul its state museum collections, igniting a wave of anticipation—and controversy. As a multicultural Spaniard with extensive experience in the museum sector, I see the initiative as part of a long-overdue and much-needed reckoning with Spain’s colonial past.
Sapiens
MAY 7, 2025
IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece of carved ivory held by Emory Universitys art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Carlos Museum in 2006 through what curators believed were legitimate channels. The Met Museum in New York, the Louvre in Paris, the Pergamon in Berlinmuseums across the U.S.
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Anthropology.net
MARCH 14, 2025
Traditionally, scholars have debated linguistic origins based on indirect clues—symbolic artifacts, brain size, or the complexity of tool-making. Instead, it suggests that the brain's ability to process language may have developed first as an internal cognitive tool, later spilling into outward communication and cultural expression.
Anthropology News
MARCH 27, 2025
Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns. Streaming services and media platforms wield similar control over cultural preservation. Digital migration, like any form of migration, is not neutral.
TeachThought
JULY 12, 2024
Share ‘school work’ Ideally authentic products and artifacts produced through new skills and knowledge useful to people and communities. Curate cultural artifacts and ‘local memory’ Today, museums do the work of ‘curating,’ but that’s a crude way to preserve the cultural artifacts that matter.
Anthropology.net
MARCH 10, 2025
They were the remains of animals deeply intertwined with the histories and cultures of Indigenous communities. Lakota elder Milo Yellow Hair looks over bison skulls stored in the CU Museum of Natural History. But NAGPRA does not apply to animal remains, leaving museums without clear guidelines on how to treat these collections.
Anthropology.net
JANUARY 16, 2025
Researchers led by Rune Iversen from the University of Copenhagen have pieced together evidence that connects these enigmatic artifacts to a period of climate upheaval. These sites, associated with the Funnel Beaker culture, were active around 2900 BCE. John Lee/National Museum of Denmark, R.
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