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, 13 August 2021

New York Magazine Caught Out Publishing Advice About How to Buy Antiquities at Source Attempts Damage Control

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  The editors of Inside Hook, in response to ATHAR's exposition of the real world context of their fluff article for the "affluent...

New York "Affluent Gents'" Magazine and the Conflict Antiquities Trade

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    Colonial loot on sale in US      I nside Hook based in New York styles itself as  “the go-to news and luxury lifestyle recommendation pl...
Tuesday, 10 August 2021

Afghanistan war: Taliban capture three regional capitals

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                                         map: BBC                                BBC : "The Taliban have captured three regional cap...
Saturday, 7 August 2021

A Timeline

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  Welcome to oops it seems to me we have the same process going on over failure to recognise the damaging effects of Collection-Driven explo...

UKDFD Milestone

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                            50k                         According to a UK Detecting finds Recording Network news release: UKDFD recently re...

Buying 'Ancient Jewellery?" Watch out for Ungrounded Fakes

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                        Jack Ogden                     Rob Bates, ' The Ancient Jewelry Market Has A Counterfeit Problem ' jckonline...
Friday, 6 August 2021

Amateur-driven, Object-centred "Best Practice" in British Archaeology Today

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  Partnership: We Dig Heritage @WDHUK1 6 g . W odpowiedzi do @Hillfortian @archaeologyuk i @ChilternsAONB Great to see this partners...
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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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