Collectors and museums end up profiting from an underground art market that continues to operate, and even thrive. — In a Sea of Stolen Artifacts, What Is the Role of the Museum? #CulturalHeritage sfstandard.com/arts-culture/i… via 🌻 Julie Zigoris 🌻 The San Francisco Standard

Voices from #Ukraine🇺🇦 — journalists, poets, and environmentalists about killing dolphins, inhaling radioactive smoke, and a deeply harmed landscape. #CulturalHeritage #podcast emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-fall… via Emergence Magazine @AnnaBadkhen

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Long-distance #mobility in the past: Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among the #Pacific Islands. New study by Aymeric Hermann et al. now out in Science Advances. CNRS 🌍 MPI-EVA Leipzig See: bit.ly/3KZwRla & science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Today is the day! 📆 Welcome to ‘COLLABORATION IN TIMES OF CRISIS: PRESERVING NATURAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE’ 🌎🌱🏛️ We’ll be tweeting live from Tbilisi Georgia 🇬🇪 It’s not to late to sign up and join us online 👇🏻 cultureincrisis.org/news-and-event…

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest – The problems are immense, but the solutions are immense, too.🌳 #Hinewai #Aotearoa #conservation waterbear.com/watch/fools-dr… via @wbnofficial

It’s #WorldOceanDay, a day when the world professes concern, and love, for the planet’s life force. MPAs are a solution often touted to preserve our oceans, but they're a challenge to define. So, @BL_Owens has created this explainer for you. 🌊 l8r.it/LEwU

The ancestral remains will be received at Te Papa next Wednesday. On their journey back home to #Aotearoa to find their final resting places, we bid them farewell: “Kia hora te marino, kia whakapapa pounamu te moana, kia tere te kārohirohi i mua i tō huarahi.” #repatriation

“There is not a single scientific procedure that would turn a contaminated object into a harmless object”. Clarifying biocide contamination by scientific analysis is an ethical requirement in any restitution process Philip Oltermann⁩ ⁦The Guardian⁩ theguardian.com/world/2023/jun…

"I would like to speak only about freedom and love. I do. But sometimes that is not possible, and sometimes – in places like Hungary and Russia – it may not even be lawful." #loveislove🏳️‍🌈

I finished this book last night. I know it sounds like hyperbole but I think it’s one of the greatest things I’ve ever read. I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to come across it. I want to throw it at everyone.

Archaeological sites reveal how people interacted, migrated, and lived across past landscapes – How rising seas are threatening a trove of #Aotearoa’s culture heritage. #ClimateCrisis #CulturalHeritage #archaeology nzherald.co.nz/nz/how-rising-…

Beautifully preserved #Māori māripi (knife) from Te Papa.🦈 #Aotearoa #CulturalHeritage artsandculture.google.com/u/1/asset/mari… via Google Arts&Culture

🔊 With just 2 traditional bone flutes from Rēkohu the Chatham Islands known to exist, a project turns to technology to bring these instruments to life Claire Concannon meets musicians & researchers helping to revitalise Moriori music & culture University of Otago rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Despite the continuous struggle for survival, a more inclusive, community-driven approach by archaeologists in Gaza gives people a reason to be proud of their #CulturalHeritage.🏺 #archaeology #MiddleEast newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-… via olivia snaije New Lines Magazine

The old wooden mosque 🕌 📍Bužim 🇧🇦 The mosque in Bužim, known as the Old Wooden Mosque, dates back to 1838 and holds the title of being the oldest wooden mosque in Europe. It was built entirely out of oak wood, without a single nail being used in its construction.

10 books to better understand wartime Ukraine kyivindependent.com/10-ukrainian-b…

A team of scientists and Alaska Native community members explore the continental shelf west of Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska, seeking submerged caves and rock shelters that would have been used by early inhabitants. alaskapublic.org/2024/04/26/arc…

Underwater cultural heritage: reconnecting ‘orphaned objects’ from shipwrecks with their original communities.🌊🏺 #underwaterculturalheritage #CulturalHeritage theconversation.com/underwater-cul… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand Martin Polkinghorne np