Lynn Meskell News Today

When links with the past are destroyed, there is a loss of opportunity to continue a way of life, to live in the place one’s parents and grandparents lived.

Through recent research, archaeologist and Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Lynn Meskell has continued to highlight how World Heritage Sites have become flashpoints for conflict and out of touch with local communities. 

Unesco’s job is to preserve our most historic sites, yet which ones are favoured can come down to secret alliances and national interests

To Coronavirus, C: An Anthropological Abecedary The images are from Breathe, an exhibition of masks at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. The co-creators, Nathalie Bertin and Lisa Shepherd, both Métis artists, invited other artists to create masks to reflect emotions felt around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. See more at whyte.org/breathe. A, Archaeology Archaeology is the study of the past and its adherents are archaeologists, who would rather die than be compared to their...