Silliest Middle East "antiquities" article of the month, this from the Smithsonian Magazine: Danny Lewis, 'These Academics Are Outracing (and Outwitting) ISIS', August 7, 2015
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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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- The Antiquities Trade in Motivational Quotes (2)
- Coin Dealers: Harken Ye to the ACCG
- Collectors, Dealers and the Truth: The Antiquities...
- Syria - The Worst Humanitarian Disaster of Our Time
- ISIL blows up the Bel temple in Palmyra
- Human Trafficking and its Context
- US Helps Protect Cyprus Heritage since 1999
- UK Metal Detecting and the PAS: 2p Each
- EAA Conference Fluff Piece
- "Preserving the past" UK Detectorist Style
- Worlingworth Local History Wreckers
- German Collector with a Conscience
- Pap Dodge Just Became Laughable
- Stratigraphy Smasher Detector For Sale
- "New PAS, New Mission”?
- Northampton has "Trained Metal Detectors"
- UK "Detectorists not in it for the Money"
- Lockdales and the Komnenid Byzantine Coin
- Some Old Collection Material on Sale
- UNESCO Director General Address at Culture Under T...
- Progress of the German Petition
- Yet Another Comment Peter Tompa Rejected
- Collectors Choose to Finance the Syrian Conflict?
- Human Trafficking Route Looks Like Antiquities Pat...
- The EU and Refugees
- Alms for Portable Antiquities Scheme
- Dealer Maupin and the Killing of Khaled al-As'ad
- Danti - Coin Trade an Exception
- The Quality of PAS 'data' (2)
- The Crimes of Palmyra
- Market for Civil War collectibles and Grave-Robbin...
- FBI Warning over Collecting Antiquities
- UK Metal Detectorist Did Not Donate?
- The Quality of PAS data
- "Detectorists" goes to America
- Without Due Diligence How to Spot Blood Antiquities?
- Ssssocialists, Superficiality, Stupidity and Sourc...
- Syrian government no longer controls 83% of the co...
- "Let's Save the Statues"?
- French Couple Caught Metal Detecting in Spain
- Reports that Palmyra's Baalshamin temple 'blown up...
- The Roots of ISIL Cultural Erasure
- Illegal excavations at Tell Adeh
- UNESCO Director: "ISIL is Systematically Destroyin...
- ISIL looting and Destruction at Palmyra?
- Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities Statement on Sekhemka
- Lenborough Anglo Saxon coin hoard to go on show
- Metal Detecting Myth Making in Bonkers Britian
- Qaryatain August 2015
- Detectorists 2 soon
- Nazi Gold Train in Poland?
- Warlords Of Ivory
- LAVA PAS's Karaoke Recorders Getting Younger and Y...
- Captain America to the Rescue of Heritage
- Marion True's Memoirs
- The Heritagist on Vikan's 'American Museums Serve ...
- Dogs Walked, Patios Weeded, Hoards Hunted, Anyone?
- US Statement on Khalid al-Assad
- Like Vikan, Hecht used Rescue Argument too
- Only in America: 'The Case For Buying Antiquities ...
- Greece Seeing Increase in Illegal Antiquities Sale...
- Another Syrian Culture Official Killed
- UK Portable Antiquities Trade
- The Abu Sayyaf Stash Value Again
- Antiquitist Lobbyist Loses Ground in Debate
- Syrian Antiquities Official Captured and Killed
- Bulgarian Antiquities Bust in news Again - Not ISI...
- Friday Retrospect: The infamous Overzealous US Cus...
- Umm Sayyaf in hands of Iraqi Kurds
- Tom Flynn, "Let’s hear it for the British Museum —...
- Black Hats Infiltrate History Group
- Senator Kaine to Support Antiquity Dealers?
- 'Stolen artifacts: Old Scourge, New Spirit
- Metal Detecting in the Current Crisis
- Dealer Dave, Due Diligence and the ACCG Code of Et...
- Due Diligence and 'Can't-Touch-You-For-it-Legitima...
- Strict Due Diligence
- PAS Meltdown referenced
- Casey on ISIL Funding through Illicit Antiquities
- Artefact Hunters "Vital" for US Civil War History?
- Culture Under Threat: Law Enforcement Solutions fo...
- Fatuous Junk Journalism from Smithsonian
- "Rita of Rollright"
- Large number of artifacts smuggled to US, EU
- US Archaeologists Need Permits too
- David Gill, Heritage Crime Matters
- Naumkin: 'Saving Middle East relics needs less tal...
- ADCAEA Inconsistent Again
- Papyrus Finds Mapped
- "Fell off ther Back'f a Lorry"? Nah, Guv, not My S...
- "Shut Your Mouf!"
- US Collector buys Stolen Native American Remains
- Metal Detectorists Get Jail Term For Digging Up Ci...
- John Merryman 1920-2015
- Australia: New laws for trading in cultural objects
- Antiquities and Due Diligence: Business Models
- Antiquities and Due Diligence: The Consequences of...
- Antiquities, Fakes and Dead Babies cross the Syria...
- Two September Conferences on Antiquities
- The "ISIL Excavation Videos"
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The popular You Tube personality "Miniminuteman" (Boston, Massachusetts-based Milo Rossi) came to my attention through the recent ... -
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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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