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 5 March 2010

Looting Matters: Why Are Antiquities From Iraq Continuing to Appear on the Market?

Looting Matters asks "Why Are Antiquities From Iraq Continuing to Appear on the Market?". The answer is simple, because neither dealers or collectors care enough to differentiate between licit artefacts and freshly looted material.

Paul Barford at 19:46

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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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