David Gill: Review of James Cuno, Museums Matter: In praise of the encyclopaedic museum (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011) available open access here.
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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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- Antiquitist Special Pleading
- New Cultural Heritage Laws in Switzerland
- More Careless Syrian Coin Listings in America
- US Brigadier General Urges Proper Antiquities Mark...
- Giza men arrested after digging up ancient temple ...
- Russian Journalism and Syrian Artefacts Truth
- Syria: "Virtually Nothing is Left"
- Metal Detectorist Arrested Near Tarquinia for Looting
- Bonkers Britain: Please sign the "Save Stonehenge ...
- 'Conflict Antiquities' in Syria and Iraq: How Much...
- "They Blow up Shrines, don't They?"
- US Archaeologists Selling Finds: AIA in St. Louis ...
- Sayles: "Archaeologists and Museums may be Involve...
- 'The Intellectual Consequences of Collecting Archa...
- Anonymous Time-Wasters
- How the West buys ‘conflict antiquities’ from Iraq...
- How to STOP the flow of Illicit Antiquities
- PAS: "Working Across the County"
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: PAS-thetic in Essex
- Future of PAS Wales Shaky
- Bigger, Better, Tighter, more Vitamins: ADCAEA Due...
- 120 arrested 1,300 items seized in Zhejiang's ‘big...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: The Legalities of the...
- Turkey's Security Authorities Attempting to Thwart...
- Swedish Institutes in Peril
- Parthenon Marbles - Athens' Kebab Stallholders can...
- Today in Rylands
- SLAM and Museum Ethics
- Wales and Syria
- New legislation on the cards in Germany
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting; On my untouched pasture
- Germany attracts trade in looted artifacts
- Artefact Hunters Plunder Ancient Danish Burial Sites
- Faux Numis
- Kilroy Coins
- Exploring the "Only Encyclopaedic Museums" myth
- Director Sayles in Denial and Losses his Reading G...
- Gill's Review of Cuno's "Museums Matter: In praise...
- ADCAEA and Their Masks
- Tom Flynn: a response to James Cuno
- Source: "antiquities smuggled from Syria now form ...
- Dealer: "Culture War well worth the read"
- English Heritage adds hundreds of sites to 'at ris...
- Another Egyptian coffin has turned up in a private...
- Cultural Property Obfuscation from "Pearlstein"
- Private Collection and Documentation Standards
- Will St Louis Art Museum make public ....?
- Now, that's NOT Armchair archaeology, it's Artefac...
- Cuno in Praise of "Encyclopaedic Museums" (Again)
- National Gallery of Australia Writes off 5.6 milli...
- The Shame of St Louis
- Art sellers benefiting from war looting, experts say
- In war against ISIL, a fine line between facts and...
- Fitz Gibbon Stop the War and the Looting will Stop...
- ADCAEA Officer: "Boycott Turkish Antiquities"
- Disneyland 'Solution' to Syria's Looting problem
- Egypt's Heritage TaskForce on Bakarat
- Allah's Greedy Culture Thieves
- UNESCO chief appeals to parties in Libya to stop d...
- Film: "Plundered Heritage"
- New "Nazi War Diggers" Allegations
- America isn't doing much to stop a booming trade i...
- The "Loot to Save" Argument Again
- Heritage Preservationists and Democracy
- Iraq and Syria: Artefact Hunter Accuses
- Al-Ahram Apologises for Mistake
- Heritage Lottery Fund Supports Collection Driven E...
- Militia Rule in Mesopotamia
- The connection between ISIL, Looting and the Antiq...
- The connection between ISIL and the antiquities tr...
- Rep. William Keating and Antiquities Trafficking
- "Detectorists" Viewing Figures
- The Future of War in the Middle East and the Futur...
- Follow The ISIS Money
- Libya Rapidly Turning into Failed State
- UNESCO's 'Heritage is identity, don’t steal it' Ca...
- Archaeological Site Damage in the Cycle of War and...
- The New Yorker Writes on ISIL Looting in Syria
- Syria, Who is Digging Up What Where?
- Archaeologists Involved in Syria Looting?
- Talking of "an Acceptable Stance"
- Lady Lard Keeps Mum: Looks after the Kids While Hu...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: The English are Comin...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: "Collecting Cultures"...
- Looters, "why can't they eat cake?"
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Straight from the Hor...
- The Past for Sale: New Approaches to the Study of ...
- Focus on UK History Hoiking: Another Hole in the A...
- Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Big Hole in Archaeolo...
- "Ministry prevents sale of Egyptian antiquities in...
- Israeli war destroyed Gaza antiquities
- Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Reportedly Looted Private M...
- Intellectual Honesty of Collectors
- War against Isis: US Strategy in Tatters
- The Damaging Depiction of UK Metal Detectorists on...
- Friday Retrospect: Damaging Relationships - Metal ...
- The Depiction of Detectorists (Part two)
- Focus on Metal Detecting: Selfish Hoikers 'n Museems
- UK MPs set to vote to recognise Palestine
- AIA Urged to Take Action in St Louis
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"We ask the question. Is Metal Detecting Ruining Archaeology?" ummm, yeah... duh. And it's not just the "nighthawks"...
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A chip on the shoulder: @graceygrumble 1 month ago (edited) Detectorists and 'amateur' historians have made incalculable contributi...
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An ancient site was damaged by artefact hunters who accidentally discovered an Etruscan cemetery on their land in Citta della Pieve, locat...
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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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Out of concern for public safety... The State Nuseum of GULAG History in Moscow , the only state museum in Russia de...
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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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Fortunately, there are people who dare to write about the "outdated, and indeed flawd, thinking"s.
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