We're always happy when material from an excavation of ours becomes part of a research project!
Thank you #JasminÖzyurt from the #ERC Project #HistoGenes at #ÖAW for the fantastic presentation about the #awar#burialsite of #Achau
The annual conference for the European Association of Archaeology (EAA) is happening in #Belfast this week.
Follow #EAA2023, #EAABelfast or similar iterations to read interesting posts and find great new accounts to follow. #Archaeology @archaeodons
#Stonehenge: "used to peddle myths about the past while conserving power and control today – academic power, political power, power over access, an essential celebrity and politician photo opportunity, a place that one has to be associated with."
Archaeologists: do you know of an antiquities looting/trafficking case that belongs in the Trafficking Culture Encyclopedia? A case from your region that should be up with the other 150+ cases on the site? Let me know! The site skews heavily toward Latin America because I skew toward Latin America. The Trafficking Culture site is well used by scholars, students, and others: I want good case study representation on there. See: https://traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia/case-studies/all/
PHILADELPHIA’S MÜTTER MUSEUM IS REVIEWING ITS COLLECTION OF HUMAN REMAINS. HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS FOR DISABILITY REPRESENTATION by Riva Lehrer (Art in America, 2023).
"The Mütter joins medical and natural history museums around the world who are debating the ethical treatment of human remains. There is the question of provenance: at the Mütter, some specimens may have been accepted into the collection under dubious or outright unethical circumstances. Mütter curator Anna Dhoty has written about one unclear holding. Other provenance issues have recently been resolved after decades of negotiation. And in some instances, there is virtually no paper trail at all.
All this gets at a deeper, more troubling question: can it ever be ethical to own, or exhibit, someone else’s body? And if so, how should those bodies be displayed?"
I agree with your point of view, it is a question of context and a general rule cannot be established. It depends, among other factors, on the provenance and function of the human remains in the museum: whether they are only in the museum as a result of colonial brutality, whether they can provide significant knowledge, or whether they are only on display to sell tickets.
In Spain we have a very interesting case: that of the Guanche mummies.
The Swedish Rock Art Research Archive (SHFA) has launched a new digital platform for their collection. The database includes more than 24,000 digitized images. Apart from the digitalised archival materials, there are high resolution images (#IIIF), laser scans, 3D etc available as CC-BY-ND.
@Archasa@archaeodons
This is wonderful. For those of us who have been, for example, to Tannum and taken inadequate photos of our own it is marvellous to see the range and extent of the petroglyphs and the quality of the images here. Thank you. @ArchaeoIain
On this day in 1614, John Verdun died aged 63. The Journals show a rubbing of his elaborate tomb at Kilmallock, Co. Limerick: https://bit.ly/verdun1614
New video: "The Homo naledi Controversy! With Jamie Hodgkins and George Leader"
I sat down and chatted about Homo naledi with Jamie (Reviewer #1 for the burial paper at eLife) and George (archaeologist who focuses on Southern African Paleolithic). cc: @archaeodons