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A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

Sapiens

For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. FORGING A PATH OF LIBERATION THROUGH POETRY How can we, as artists and creative practitioners, access the past when a linguistic border separates us from human stories and speaks only of statistics and numbers? The time for that has passed.

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Cementing the Past

Sapiens

Charlotte has worked on community museum projects, coordinated decolonizing museum programs, and co-curated an independent art exhibition. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. Her research explores how archaeology as a discipline has been used in U.S.

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The Taung Child at 100: Decolonizing the Origins of Paleoanthropology

Anthropology.net

The scientific establishment, still enthralled by the Eurocentric idea that human origins were tied to Asia or Europe, was unwilling to accept an African cradle for humanity. His work was shaped by the racial and colonial attitudes of his time, and his interpretation of human evolution was, at times, influenced by problematic ideas.

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. How were those pots used?

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Why I Talked to Pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan

Sapiens

I am an archaeologist, a scientist who uses the remains of objects, structures, and other traces of human activity to reconstruct how past peoples lived. Ham used the spectacle to raise funds for his Creation Museum. My goal is to share the magnitude and diversity of human achievement. Some pundits called it a mistake.

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Seeking Ever-Elusive Treasures: Reflections on Collective Memory and Spectrality of the Past

Anthropology News

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. tourism). a golden jewelry). unprocessed gold fragments).

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value.