Name the claim, affected communities, evidence and decision authority.
REPRESENTATION · STEWARDSHIP · ACCOUNTABILITY
Nothing about people
without people.
A review system for claims that affect living communities, ancestral remains, identity, cultural property and public memory.Recruit the right reviewers and compensate specialized or community labor.
Record disagreements, including who has decision-making power and where the evidence comes from.
Accept, revise, restrict, contextualize or reject with a visible rationale.
Set conditions for another review when evidence, a community’s position or the use of the material changes.
Descendant-community review
Names, continuity, sovereignty, oral knowledge and harmful framings are reviewed with people whose histories are being represented.
Community authority is not interchangeable with outside peer review.Subject-matter review
Archaeology, genetics, paleoanthropology, history, ecology and material-culture claims receive discipline-appropriate scrutiny.
Expertise is claim-specific; no universal reviewer exists.Source and provenance audit
Reviewers verify that citations support the precise sentence, image, range, date and uncertainty label shown.
A prestigious source can still be misapplied.Accessibility and teaching review
Educators and learners test language, sequence, cognitive load, disability access and misconception risk.
Accuracy that cannot be understood is not enough.Ethics and stewardship review
Sensitive remains, sacred knowledge, genomic data, repatriation, image rights and cultural property receive explicit controls.
Availability is not permission.Adversarial interpretation review
A reviewer tries to falsify the explanation, identify overlooked alternatives and find claims that sound more precise than the evidence allows.
Reviewers should actively test the explanation.PUBLIC EVIDENCE