01/18/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/18/2021 13:56
Kenya prepares for regional training workshops on the protection of underwater cultural heritage
A Japan Funds-in-Trust to UNESCO project has provided diving equipment to the National Museums of Kenya s Department of Coastal Archaeology in preparation for two regional capacity-building workshops on the protection of underwater cultural heritage to be held in the second half of 2021 for 18 participants from across the Africa region.
The UNESCO project Building Capacity and Raising Awareness for Underwater Cultural Heritage Research in Africa aims to increase capacities of African underwater archaeologists from Angola, Benin, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Mauritius and Sudan, and raise awareness among community and government stakeholders about the urgency and importance of protecting and promoting underwater cultural heritag
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Heritage activist Mwazulu Diyabanza, from Congo, has been on a grabbing spree of African artefacts in European museums that were stolen from former colonies. His actions have left him with a total bill of $9,771 in fines.
What is driving Diyabanza to take ethnographic collections that are on display in museums across Europe? It’s his frustration with stringent ancient laws that go back to the 16th century in most European countries that consider cultural heritage materials stolen from Africa as “inalienable”.
Diyabanza, 41, has always defended himself on the basis that his actions cannot be considered theft because the objects were already stolen property.
Top 9 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2020 Edition
2020 has been… quite the year! The pandemic changed a lot about the world including the ways in which paleoanthropologists, archaeologists, and other fieldwork-based researchers operate. This year, we want to highlight the different lines of evidence that are used in human origins research – so we’ve organized our nine highlighted discoveries into four broader “lines of evidence” categories. Since many scientific articles are years in the making, a lot of exciting discoveries were still revealed in 2020!
1. Fossil footprints tell us where and how modern humans traveled the globe
While
we may not be able to move around much this year, three studies on fossil human footprints published in 2020 revealed a lot more about where ancient humans traveled and how they moved together in groups. Unlike body fossils, footprints (and other “trace fossils”) offer us a snapshot of an exact moment in time, or at least a very short
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Protecting endangered animal and plant resources and keeping ecological balance concerns the existence and development of mankind, and is also an important indicator that measures the civilization progress of countries and nations.
The development of an ecological civilization is attached with high importance in China, and is used to guide the country’s development. China is making coordinated efforts to advance biodiversity governance and actively promoting international cooperation on wildlife protection, so as to jointly build a shared future for all life on Earth and chart the course for global ecological civilization.
Adenia angulosa, Striga asiatica and Zehneria japonica, these obscure terms are all important findings by Chinese researchers from the Sino-Africa Joint Research Center. In November this year, they once again discovered a new plant species in a forest in western Kenya, which was believed to bear significant i