Chip Colwell is the founding editor-in-chief of SAPIENS and former senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has written and edited twelve books, and his essays have appeared widely, including in the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Atlantic.
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Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or th... SEE MORE