Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues

A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.

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Friday, 24 June 2011

Financial Times on Investing in Antiquities (Again)

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. The Financial Times has an article 'Antiquities: the war of art', by Stephen Wilmot (23/6/11) discussing the "attractions and...

Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Antiquity Collecting as Cultural Cosmopolitanism

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. T he " Cultural Property Internationalist " message brought by US coiney dealer-ideologues to the Newcastle Conference was, they...

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

"Cosmopolitan" behaviour

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The collectors of dugup antiquities claim that their activities promote "cultural understanding", that they have a cosmopolitan o...

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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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