This old blog post took a bit of writing. It summarises the logical fallacies that emerged fro discussions with the dugup antiquities lobbyists intent on avoiding change to their no-questions-asked self-centred exploitation of the historical record. Possibly I would use other terms now and maybe even add a fallacy or two, but what I wrote then still seems to make sense to me. Needless to say the same old arguments are still being used, unmodified, by the antiquities trade today. So let's give the traders a second chance to actually address them.
A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
Friday, 4 July 2014
Friday Retrospect: The Nine Fallacies of the No-Questions-Asked Market
This old blog post took a bit of writing. It summarises the logical fallacies that emerged fro discussions with the dugup antiquities lobbyists intent on avoiding change to their no-questions-asked self-centred exploitation of the historical record. Possibly I would use other terms now and maybe even add a fallacy or two, but what I wrote then still seems to make sense to me. Needless to say the same old arguments are still being used, unmodified, by the antiquities trade today. So let's give the traders a second chance to actually address them.
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