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.

Friday, 16 January 2009

How to categorise this?

I was going to post this up here for future reference with minimal comment. Archaeologists coming across this blog will know what I mean. ...

The fruits of partnership

" Once finished, the English Heritage initiative, part of a national project, will be available to archaeologists, researchers, metal d...

Thursday, 15 January 2009

France honours antiquities dealer Ali Aboutaam,

In looking something else up, I stumbled across an interesting news article ('France Honors Ali Aboutaam, President of Phoenix Ancient ...

US Chinese antiquities curbs

After much foot-dragging, the State Department and US Customs have finally taken action on imposing import restrictions on items from the Pe...

Arrrest of Antiquities Dealer

Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced, apparently yesterday, that antiquities dealer Ali Aboutaam had been arrested by Interpo...

New look at the “war on looting”?

Incredibly, it has taken British politicians seven years to conclude something that it seems to me was obvious to anyone with half a brain c...

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

Celator text more revealing

Yesterday I discussed in this blog Reid Goldsborough's presentation of an article written by Rick Witschonke which he had read in the U...

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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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