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Thursday, 30 March 2017

“It’s time to fight like your world depends on it”


An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power:
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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power Trailer (2017) Official - Paramount Pictures
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This is the follow-up to Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim’s Oscar-winning 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Paramount will release the Participant Media documentary on July 28.



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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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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

  • Paul Barford Antiquities and Heritage Issues
  • Paul Barford Portable Antiquities Collecting
  • Paul Barford and Friends
  • Paul Barford-Heritage, the Truth
  • Steve Taylor Scrap Metal Collector [despite what the self-absorbed fantasist asserts, definitely not by me]

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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