About Me
- Paul Barford
- British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw Poland. Since the early 1990s a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context.
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Related sites
- David Gill - Looting matters
- ECHO Egyptian Cultural Heritage Orgnization
- Elginism
- Ethical Antiquities Collecting: Ancient Heritage
- Global Heritage Fund
- Halte au pillage du Patrimoine Archéologique et Historique
- Heritage Action
- Heritage Key
- Heritage Watch
- Illicit Cultural Property
- It Surfaced Down Under!
- Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Loot blog (Nora Mattern)
- Looting History
- Musea Beveiliging
- Museum Security Network (Google)
- Nathan Elkins - Numismatics and Archaeology
- Pieces of the Past: Ethical Antiquities Collecting
- Protecting China's Archaeological Heritage
- René Teijgeler - Culture in Development
- Research into Crimes against Art Association
- Ricardo A. St. Hilaire - Cultural Heritage Lawyer
- SAFE - Saving Antiquities For EVERYONE
- SAFECorner
- Stanford Archaeology Center, Cultural Heritage Resource
- Stanford Cultural Heritage Resource - Chronicle
- The Chasing Aphrodite Blog
- The Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog
- The heritage Journal (Heritage Action's blog)
- Things You Can't Take Back
Followers
Posting comments
Further Information
- AAMD (Association of Art Museum Directors)
- CBA (UK) - current issues: Portable Antiquities
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer - Ricardo St. Hilaire
- European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
- Fighting the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property (ICOM)
- IFAR International Foundation for Art Research
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (UK) - now sadly closed
- International Cultural Property Protection (US Dept of State)
- Interpol - stolen art works
- Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide
- Museum Security Network
- Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK)
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- Treasure Trove Unit (UK - Scotland)
- UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
- UNESCO Website
- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects
Apologists and Propagandists of the Current Form of the No-Questions-Asked Antiquities Trade etc.
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of BULGARIA (Docket DOS-2011-0115)
- Cultural Property Observer (Peter Tompa - lawyer)
- Moneta-L (coiney discussion list, mostly US and ancients- biased)
- Unidroit-L (rather moribund 'discussion' group)
- Yahoo Ancient Artifacts discussion group
- Uncleanedcoin Chat List
- The Ancient Art Market (blog, some "art consultant")
- Ancient Coin Coillectors' Guild (US lobby group)
- Ancient Coins & Cultural Heritage (blog, De La Fe - US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coins (Dave Welsh - US part-time coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Collecting (Wayne Sayles - US coin dealer)
- Ancient & World Coin Geek (blog, US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Trade (Jorg Lueke - US coin collector)
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of GREECE (Docket DOS-2010-0339)
Abbreviations used in this blog
- CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
- coiney - private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
- CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
- CPIA (CCPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act
- FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
- HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
- PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- tekkie - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
