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Most buyers and sellers are avid collectors, who see accumulating rare bones as a legitimate, if eccentric, hobby. But others view the rise of the human remains trade on Instagram as more than a sign of eccentricity, particularly when Instagrammers take real human skulls and give them faux tribal makeovers. Archeologists and historians keeping a close eye on the Instagram skull trade worry that it is an online microcosm of the West's dark colonial past, and at a moment in history when museums are beginning to take decolonisation and repatriation of stolen remains seriously, some wonder whether the online trade is reopening barely-healed wounds.
View on Instagram. Pre, if you were in the market for human remains, eBay was your go-to website. But after the site banned the sale of human body parts with the exception of scalp hair in , Instagram has taken over. Selling remains on the photo-sharing network works much like other informal commerce on the platform. A user will post an image of, say, a skull, and offer a price in the comment section below. Interested users will then reach out via direct message, and if a price is agreed upon, payment is made directly, and the goods packaged and shipped.
Archeologists Damien Huffer and Shawn Graham have been surveying the scale of this shadowy market since , searching and analysing several thousand posts advertising human remains on the platform. And Huffer says that the true total is likely to be much higher.
Unlike other illicit markets on Instagram — exotic animals, looted antiquities, weapons — there is nothing explicitly illegal about trading human remains on the platform. And while displaying human remains publicly requires a license from the Human Tissues Authority, this is not the case for posting photos of them online.
Other jurisdictions have a less laissez faire approach to the bone trade, however. In the United States, Louisiana, Georgia, and Tennessee all have regulations restricting the sale and possession of human remains. But for the most part, Huffer says, laws are ambiguous and unenforced. The species walked the earth around 70 million years ago, existing as one of the last non-avian carnivorous They have lived alongside humans for millenia, and we rely on them Please wait Compare Comparision List Compare Now.
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