{"id":613272,"date":"2024-03-18T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-an-entertaining-look-at-the-fossil-trade\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:40:00","slug":"watch-an-entertaining-look-at-the-fossil-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-an-entertaining-look-at-the-fossil-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch An Entertaining Look at the Fossil Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c58241b8b3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3c58241b8b3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-an-entertaining-look-at-the-fossil-trade\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_An_Entertaining_Look_at_the_Fossil_Trade%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online An Entertaining Look at the Fossil Trade&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-an-entertaining-look-at-the-fossil-trade\/#%E2%80%9CAn_Entertaining_Look_at_the_Fossil_Trade%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;An Entertaining Look at the Fossil Trade&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_An_Entertaining_Look_at_the_Fossil_Trade%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online An Entertaining Look at the Fossil Trade&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CAn_Entertaining_Look_at_the_Fossil_Trade%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;An Entertaining Look at the Fossil Trade&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The proliferation of billionaires \u2014 with trillionaires reportedly soon to come \u2014 has raised a lot of questions in world politics. But one question has been around as long as wealth itself: What can an individual actually <em>do <\/em>with that much money? A new answer arises in \u201cThe Bones,\u201d proving that the rich will always break fresh ground in the realm of luxury expenditures. Even for the man or woman who \u201chas everything,\u201d there may still be unfulfilled need for a reconstructed Triceratops skeleton dating from <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roximately 67,000,000 B.C. Think how it will look in one\u2019s Great Room! That\u2019ll show arrivistes whose trophies are from mere living species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yes, there is an actual market for such things, as Jeremy Xido\u2019s documentary feature suggests \u2014 though it does not take us into the homes of such collectors, who presumably would rather not advertise their acquisitions. It used to be that dinosaur artifacts were dug up for scientific study, then preserved for natural history museums. But now paleontologists must vie with a deep-pocketed commercial sphere where the potential for huge profits can tend to loosen any moral scruples. Premiering at CPH:DOX, this breezy introduction to a complex subject sprawls across the globe from excavation field to academia to auction house. More an entertaining sampler of related issues and colorful personalities than any sober expos\u00e9, it should have broad appeal for programmers seeking nonfiction content both educational and humorous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    As one observer here says, the \u201cfossil trade\u201d has existed for at least 300 years. But it is not a surprise to learn that interest in dinosaurs \u2014 and the revving up of tie-in commerce \u2014 experienced a big jump following the release of the first \u201cJurassic Park\u201d film 31 years ago. Ever since, commercial diggers have grown more numerous and aggressive, to the dismay of scientists who now frequently find potentially valuable excavation sites \u201cdestroyed\u201d by careless amateurs. One local Moroccan interviewed says that \u201cin a good week,\u201d he might make $40 mining the Sahara for fossils. At the other extreme, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen (dubbed \u201cSue\u201d) found up to that point wound up sold by Sotheby\u2019s for $8.3 million in 1997. Twenty-three years later, a similar item (\u201cStan\u201d) fetched nearly four times as much.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Some of these giganti do end up in museums. But others vanish into the realm of private collectors whose identities often remain hidden. Either way, those end points typically arrive after a convoluted long process \u201cThe Bones\u201d can only somewhat illuminate, as there are so many variables. Laws in the countries of origin may have little power in the country of receipt and\/or sale. We learn that while in Canada\u2019s Alberta province only the government can truly \u201cown\u201d a fossil, in many other places the rules are vague or ill-enforced enough to create a \u201cfree-for-all.\u201d (That term is used by one expert here to describe the U.S.\u2019s policies, or lack thereof.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Such inconsistencies encourage smuggling, accidental or deliberate misidentification of artifacts, and constantly rising prices. They also sustain innumerable middle-men like Francois Escuillie, a French entrepreneur who prefers to think he\u2019s built \u201ca niche between <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and commerce\u201d \u2014 though he\u2019ll admit some paleontologists call him \u201ca thug.\u201d Seen at his sizable fossil warehouse or attending a huge annual gem, fossil and mineral convention in Tucson, he\u2019s viewed here as a sort of wacky, lovable ne\u2019er-do-well uncle; Ramachandra Borcar\u2019s original score begins to frolic whenever he\u2019s onscreen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But such slippery characters are the bane of researchers like Nizar Ibrahim, who find themselves in a \u201crace against time trying to see how many of these treasures we can rescue for science\u201d before they get damaged or sold for private profit. The breadth of the legal grey zone across nations means that while Escuillie has been repeatedly investigated by Customs officials, even had his pieces and passport confiscated, he\u2019s also repeatedly won the court cases against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cPeople think it\u2019s world heritage. They confuse morality with law,\u201d he grouses at one point. But many artifacts in western museums are now a discomfiting vestige of colonialism, and officials in places like Mongolia and Morocco want their heritage back. The shifting sands of human politics, economics and more continue to disturb these bones more than did the intervening 80 million years since some last strode the earth. Their proper care and study seems of particular urgency to scientists now, because after all, dinosaurs and 21st-century humanity have something in common: living in an epoch of mass extinctions and climate change. As one observer notes in parting here, \u201cNo species lasts forever.\u201d Gulp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Xido (\u201cDeath Metal Angola\u201d) surveys this tangled territory with a sensibility that is equal parts early Errol Morris in its attraction towards idiosyncratic individuals, and dispassionately sleek \u201cNational Geographic\u201d-style edutainment. The dramatic landscapes visited in North America and Asia are captured to fine widescreen effect a team of camerapeople. A bonus in the smoothly accomplished assembly are a couple CGI animation sequences (not from \u201cJurassic\u201d films) illustrating what long-gone creatures of both land and sea would have looked like.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThe Bones\u201d is nonjudgmental, suggesting that the pursuit of science is a nobler cause than that of shekels, but not necessarily disagreeing with those who argue they can co-exist. A whole movie could be made about ways in which the \u201cfossil trade\u201d has frequently crossed into illegality \u2014 this is not that movie. Xido is content to size up the different sides, casually weighing their conflicts yet refraining from assignment of any particular blame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The result may well strike your average paleontologist as settling for charm where it ought to indict. Nonetheless, the film\u2019s multinational sweep has enough ballast to leave you more concerned about the state of the prehistoric record than you were going in \u2026 and to make tens of millions of years suddenly shrink in the larger scheme of things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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