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The shorter List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding is composed of those cultural elements that concerned communities and countries consider to require urgent measures to keep them alive. [5] [6] The third list is the Register of Good Safeguarding Practices.
Cultural artifact is a more generic term and should be considered with two words of similar, but narrower, nuance: it can include objects recovered from archaeological sites, i.e. archaeological artifacts, but can also include objects of modern or early-modern society, or social artifacts.
In archaeology, the word has become a term of particular nuance; it is defined as an object recovered by archaeological endeavor, including cultural artifacts (of cultural interest). "Artifact" is the general term used in archaeology, while in museums the equivalent general term is normally "object", and in art history perhaps artwork or a more ...
Many of the artifacts currently in British museums are at the center of heated debates about repatriation and colonialism. 10 cultural artifacts the British Empire took from other nations, from ...
Global cultural flow involves the flow of people, artifacts, and ideas across national boundaries as result of globalization. [1] [2]: 296 Global cultural flows can be observed in five interdependent 'Landscapes', or dimensions, that distinguish the fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture, and politics in the global cultural economy.
More than 200 Mexican artifacts seized by US customs agents, some dating to 900 BC, have been repatriated to the government of Mexico.
A dozen employees at Haiti’s Citadelle Henry are currently in jail after two cannons went missing from inside a locked museum at the mountaintop fortress in northern city of Milot.
Archaeological culture is a classifying device to order archaeological data, focused on artifacts as an expression of culture rather than people. [1] The classic definition of this idea comes from Gordon Childe: [2] We find certain types of remains – pots, implements, ornaments, burial rites and house forms – constantly recurring together.