tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post2820333737960747807..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ill-Informed Aussie Joan Howard Article DiscussedPaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-18443360649460901792017-11-08T10:09:32.714-08:002017-11-08T10:09:32.714-08:00> Actually, as you know, Campbell is wrong. The...> Actually, as you know, Campbell is wrong. The 1970 UNESCO Convention is NOT international law. <<br />Which, is why, as you will have noticed, I did not quote it .<br /><br />Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-48417487777709414602017-11-08T07:18:54.715-08:002017-11-08T07:18:54.715-08:00“The short answer is, yes, it was illegal,” archae...<i>“The short answer is, yes, it was illegal,” archaeologist Peter Campbell tells Inverse. “International law sets the deadline at 1970 — the date of the 1970 UNESCO Convention — for the removal of artifacts from the ground for collection."</i><br /><br />Actually, as you know, Campbell is wrong. The 1970 UNESCO Convention is NOT international law. The laws that Howard was probably breaking were those of the countries she was digging in, as Jens Notroff points out. The Australian newspaper's celebration of her blatant disregard of those laws as if she were some kind of hero is ignorant and thoughtless. And much like British media heralding the finds of a detectorist, the focus is all on the objects with no comprehension of the value of context.<br /><br />David Knellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13488678409144873954noreply@blogger.com