Samarkeolog got a bit worried by appearing on TV, but a useful summary resulted from the preparation: "Syria: antiquities-for-arms trade – Sky News interview" May 18, 2013.
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A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
About Me
- Paul Barford
- British archaeologist living and working in Warsaw, Poland. Since the early 1990s (or even longer) a primary interest has been research on artefact hunting and collecting and the market in portable antiquities in the international context and their effect on the archaeological record.
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- In US, Houghtonism Gathers Strength
- Scholar-Dealer Adrift
- Dealer AW Advises the Taliban
- U.S. embassy to Americans: Stay away from Giza's p...
- Archaeological Plundering in India
- Bath archaeological thief caught after Bellarmine ...
- Finland Refuses Embassy Request to Return Ancient ...
- British Museum Budget Cuts Loom?
- ACCG Again Fall into their own hole...
- Washington's Arthur Houghton and the Big Lie
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Better Out...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "Hoard Hunters": A Re...
- ...and the tekkie verdict on "Hoard Hunters"?
- Washington Legal Firm's "CPO" can't keep his eye o...
- Houghtonism, a "modern" (?) Elginism
- Don't Ferget
- Hoard Hunters Season 1 Episode 1 "Roman Riches"
- "Ding Jihao was here"
- "Dirt Fishing" in Idaho and out West
- Bulgarian Dugup Coin Seizure: The View From Baltim...
- Bit of Dead Sea Scroll, Anyone?
- Whever happened to "JBH"?
- An Open Trade? Caveat emptor
- Interpreting the Artefacts: 'Hairdo Archaeology'
- Syria (1) Evidence of Looting from Google Earth as...
- Syria (2), Evidence of Looting from Google Earth a...
- Syria (3), Evidence of Looting from Google Earth a...
- Syria (4), Evidence of Looting from Google Earth a...
- "The Rise and Fall and Rise of Zahi Hawass"
- Bulgarian Dugup Coin Seizure: The View from Washin...
- The 1970 UNESCO Convention for Slow Learners
- Something's Missing All Right...
- UK Metal Detecting: From "Partners" to "Getting Do...
- Friends of the Egyptian Museum
- What if....?
- Coin smugglers foiled at Cairo Airport
- Questions about the Spengler Collection remain Una...
- Money Launderers Using No-Questions-Asked Art Mark...
- Way to go in US "art" market
- Tipperary Looter's Finds Tally
- One Lot of Smuggled Dug-up Ancient Coins from Bulg...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting, With "Friends" like t...
- Nowhere Safe as Treasure Hunters Plunder Heritage ...
- Looting at Antinopolis
- Rabid Arguments in US Antiquity Collecting
- Marquis of Northampton (Re)claims Family's Ownersh...
- Yasmine el-Shazly Interviews
- Yasmine el-Shazli on the Jan 28th Cairo Museum Loo...
- History Buffs Applaud Raid
- "La Grande Razzia è ancora tra noi, e Christie’s l...
- Smuggling Antiquities from Syria
- 900 looted artefacts recovered in Norfolk
- Archaeology: What's That?
- Syria and Guns
- Syria, More on Syria
- Green Waste Contamination Hinders Artefact Hunting...
- South Californian Museum Raids: Aftermath
- Smugglers Arrested in Lebanon
- What can you expect? A Respectable Business Would....
- American Dug up Dealers....
- Syria breaking up
- Doing the Right Thing
- On their Way: Smuggled Syrian antiquities recovere...
- "Art" that Should not BE in US Museums
- Cambodia Presses U.S. Museums to Relinquish Antiqu...
- Can't STOP the Illegal Artefact Hunters?
- Getting Confused About Captain America
- Egyptian Antiquities: Rotten Apples on the London ...
- Macedonia: 19 Arrested for Artifact Smuggling
- Anonymous Pyramid-Smashers in Belize
- Bournemouth "Finders" Make off with Military Souve...
- "Over 120 years of experience" of Artefact Hunting
- Four years Ago: "all that is needed is a piece of ...
- Deaccessioning of Material from Public Collections
- UK metal Detecting: The Importance of a Name...
- The Many Faces of a Hobby
- Syrian Conflict: Samarkeolog Examines the Trade in...
- "Men With Guns" in Syria
- "The Importance of Public Debate on History"
- Travel Channel, "Dig Wars", artefact hunting "Real...
- "Sotheby’s Claims Ignorance"
- ACCG: "They cannot refuse to try our case"
- Peruvian Smuggling Mystery Followed by Miami Forfeit
- Heritage UKIP: "Britain triumphs over the rest of ...
- UK Antiquities Seller Bailed (Ahram)
- Caveat Vendor
- Coin Repatriation In Question by Archaeolaw?
- Behind the "Met's" Decision on the Koh Ker Statues
- Antiquity Collecting: Carrots and Sticks in the USA
- Some Light on Collector's Comment on "Shooting up ...
- Heritage Art Auction’s pre-Columbian sale
- Black-market Dinosaurs Returned to Source Country
- New Minister of Antiquities in Egypt
- 'Tarby' Goes Home
- "Syrians Loot Roman Treasures to Buy Guns"
- Looting in Syria: Watch this Space
- Smuggled Nok objects returned to Nigeria by France
- Stuttgart Coin Handler, Stefan Sonntag
- Ahram, English Dealer Arrested over Christie's Ant...
- Looting and Conflict in Syria - do you KNOW where ...
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The UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has decided to grant provisional enhanced pr...
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A Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting in England and Wales (2018)
I started this counter at midnight of 15th July 2018. Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting.
Related sites
- David Gill - Looting matters
- ECHO Egyptian Cultural Heritage Orgnization
- Elginism
- Erik Nemeth et al. Art World Intelligence
- 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
- Michael McCullough LLC Blog
- Museum Security Network (Google)
- Nathan Elkins - Numismatics and Archaeology
- Nord on Art
- 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
- Sam Hardy 'Conflict Antiqiuties'
- 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)
- The Punching Bag Larry Rothfield
- Things You Can't Take Back
- Trafficking Culture (Glasgow)
- Tumblr - Cultural Security
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Further Information
- AAMD (Association of Art Museum Directors)
- CBA (UK) - current issues: Portable Antiquities
- Code of Practice for "Responsible Metal Detecting" in England and Wales
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer - Ricardo St. Hilaire
- Cultural Security
- 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.
- 2015 Petition: "Für den Erhalt des privaten Sammelns [sic]"
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of EGYPT (Docket DOS-2014-0008)
- 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)
- Past Times and Present tensions (John Hooker)
False "Barford" Blogs, Not Actually by Paul Barford
Abbreviations used in this blog
- "coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
- "heap-of-artefacts-on-a-table-collecting" the term rather speaks for itself, an accumulation of loose artefacts with no attempt to link each item with documented origins. Most often used to refer to metal detectorists (ice-cream tubs-full) and ancient coin collectors (Roman coins sold in aggregated bulk lots)
- "tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
- ACCG - Ancient Coin Collectors' (sic) Guild
- CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
- CCPIA (CPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act [US legislation]
- CDE - Collection-Driven Exploitation of archaeological sites
- CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
- FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
- HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
- IAPN - International Association of Professional Numismatists
- MENA - Middle East and North Africa
- PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- PNG - Professional Numismatists' Guild
- 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
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