Crowdsourced · Community-verified · Community-owned

Preserving Humanity’s Memory

Travel, record and safeguard the songs, dances, languages and crafts of the world’s living cultures — reviewed by community moderators and minted as Heritage Tablets owned by the communities themselves.

FC · LIVING ATLAS
22 CULTURES · 24,910 TABLETS

148

Cultures mapped

24,910

Heritage Tablets minted

6,300+

Field contributors

$1.9M

Returned to communities

How it works

From a village to forever

Five steps turn one afternoon’s recording into permanent, community-owned memory.

Pack your kit

Become a field contributor

Claim a Field Pass — your identity on the archive. No gatekeeping: a student, a traveller, or a community elder all carry the same key.

Visit & record

With consent, always

Sit with a community. Record a song, a dance, a craft, a dialect, a story — phone footage is enough. Consent of the keepers is logged with every upload.

Community review

Language, meaning, provenance

Community moderators review every recording — language, meaning and provenance — before anything is published. No contribution is verified or published without a human decision.

Mint a Heritage Tablet

Sealed on an open ledger

Your contribution becomes a Heritage Tablet — a digital artifact with permanent provenance. The originating community is named as origin and co-owner.

Earn & sustain

Value flows back to the source

Contributors earn $LORE. Whenever a Tablet is collected or referenced, royalties flow to the community fund — heritage that pays the people who keep it alive.

The platform

Built for the keepers

Field Expeditions

Anyone can document a living culture. Open kits, consent tooling and a global map of communities seeking to be recorded — or to record themselves.

Community review

Every upload is reviewed by human community moderators before anything is published — no automated verification and no auto-publishing. An optional draft assistant can suggest transcriptions for reviewers, but it never decides.

Heritage Tablets

Contributions are minted as archival artifacts with permanent provenance — a clay tablet for the digital age that can never be quietly erased.

Community Sovereignty

The originating community is named owner and beneficiary. Royalties flow to a community fund; nothing is sold without the keepers' consent.

Cultural Knowledge Graph

Songs, languages, crafts and rituals are woven into one living web — follow throat-singing or a weaving motif across continents.

Living Atlas

A world map of living cultures, glowing with every new recording — explore by people, language, practice or by the pulse of fresh contributions.

Heritage Tablets

A clay tablet for the digital age

Each verified recording is sealed on the Lineage ledger as a Heritage Tablet — permanent provenance, the community named as origin, and royalties routed home. Collect one and you fund the people who keep the tradition alive.

#0412

Song

Lineage ledger◈ 24

Luohti — a joik of the land

by @lenaki · 70% to community

120 $LORE

#0398

Craft

Lineage ledger◈ 17

Pewter-thread bracelet

by @birit.craft · 70% to community

95 $LORE

#0377

Language

Lineage ledger◈ 31

The eight seasons

by @oula.t · 75% to community

60 $LORE

#0351

Story

Lineage ledger◈ 12

The Stállu giant

by @inga.s · 70% to community

80 $LORE

Community sovereignty

The source comes first

Extraction is the old story of heritage. FirstCiv is built the other way around: consent is required, ownership stays with the community, and the money flows back to the people whose memory it is.

1.9M $LORE returned to communities

Consent first

Nothing is recorded or minted without the documented consent of the community keepers. Consent is itself stored in the archive.

Community-owned

The originating community is named as origin and primary beneficiary of every Heritage Tablet — and can veto or withdraw a record.

Royalties home

70% of every collection and reference royalty flows to the community fund. Contributors earn, but the source earns more.

Permanent & open

Provenance is public and immutable; the media is mirrored across open storage so no single institution can lock it away.

Somewhere, an elder is the last who remembers

A song, a story, a way of weaving. You don’t need to be a scholar — only present, and respectful. Record it before it is gone, and let it belong to the people it came from.