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.

Saturday, 28 February 2009

The NCMD against the Treasure Act

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While looking for something else, I found an old text on the internet and thought it was an interesting illustration of what kind of obstruc...
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Italian Public opinion turning against ‘tombaroli’

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In Italy, reports Philip Willan ( 'Art hit squad takes on tomb raiders after relics looted ') “ robbing tombs and other buried arch...

Fincham on Good Faith

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I really cannot agree with Derek Fincham’s earlier ideas on the Portable Antiquities Scheme, but was intrigued by his latest offering, ...
Thursday, 26 February 2009

Chinese retaliation

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China said it will tighten control on the activities of Christie's International, hours after the auction house sold a pair of Qing Dyna...

US efforts to curb illicit antiquity trade - Vitale

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Katherine D. Vitale has published a text called “ The War on Antiquities: United States Law and Foreign Cultural Property ”. It seems rather...
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Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Human body parts - price on request

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Washington portable antiquities dealer, Sue McGovern-Huffman " Sands of Time " is offering many " exquisite rare and collec...
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Monday, 23 February 2009

Quis Custodiet: Archaeology Heist Revealed In Alabama

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. US collectors make a huge fuss when stuff goes missing from foreign museums and storerooms, "see?", they say, "the source...
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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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