Online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, and Facebook enable archaeological looting and smuggling by leaving it to users to police antiquities sales (adapted from tweet by @ChasingAphrodite ).
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A blog commenting on various aspects of the private collecting and trade in archaeological artefacts today and their effect on the archaeological record.
About Me
- 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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- Writing about antiquities...
- “The plunderer is a great option”:
- Buy Without papers, Get cheated Like the Fule You Are
- Happens with cars with dodgy paperwork, antiquitie...
- IS it Gold, Dave? Yes, yes, it is gold!! Scrubbed ...
- Environmental Damage Caused by Metal Detecting
- Another Hoard, this one machined out
- When is it Legitimate to Exploit Remote Communities?
- CCPIA: US Department of State in Total Meltdown
- The 'Largest Criminal Group in Poland' is becoming...
- A "Right" to a Reward for Collection--Driven Explo...
- The UK's Charity Artefact Hunting Rally Racket
- Joan Howard Collection 'under investigation'?
- Another Find Challenges Coin Dealer Myth
- Thanksgiving
- Creating a False Past Through Bad Collecting Practice
- Dads Box
- Illegal Antiquities Trade Robbing Indonesia of His...
- UK Detectorist urges Grave-Robbing
- Egypt retrieves ancient artefacts from Cyprus
- Incestual Relations: CCP Welcomes Global Heritage ...
- Spot the Difference
- Hoik Hole - so what if it is 'filled in afterwards'?
- Networking with Cultural Criminals
- House Fire in Sicily
- Artefact Hunting in USA: 'Over 90% Sites Destroyed...
- Sick and Disgusting
- Two Palmyra Busts in ISIL Hideout [UPDATED]
- Iraq: Death Sentence for Museum Destruction?
- Iraq investigating 'stolen artifacts' at the Louvr...
- Nighthawks mantra
- The Bible Museum and its Problems
- Provenance an Issue: The 'Schleusingen collection'...
- Getting Dirty with Sam Hardy
- Not an 'Impossible Situation' at all
- Where did your antiquities come from?
- Sold me Istry, Bought me a Log Cabin
- Coffin Collection and Tomb Raid: Egyptian Police S...
- 'Qurna in the sky'
- Culture Wars: Ethnic History and Ethnic Divisions ...
- As Foreign ISIL Fighters Return Home... the Antiqu...
- Not Just Metal Detectors: Flints on Sale
- Tantrum Theatre and Marcus Milligan's Mapping
- The Reawakening of Old Ghosts
- Why Archaeologists Need to Learn Storytelling
- Perth Tomb-Raider Joan Howard Flogged off Part of ...
- Audrey Azoulay appointed as Director-General of UN...
- Detentions in Bergen Museum Heist, Objects Recovered
- Partially Literate Artefact Hoiker Selfishly Pocke...
- Joan Howard and Her Antiquities Collection
- "Detectorists" is back on UK TV
- Antiquities seized in Sharjah, UAE
- Prehistory of the Azores?
- Online Antiquities Sales Profiteers Called out by ...
- Ill-Informed Aussie Joan Howard Article Discussed
- A Perth Collector's Stash
- Faking it: The Antiquities Market in Action
- Friday Retrospect: Coins of Zenobia and the Syrian...
- Unregulated Online Looter Enablers
- ISIL territory Shrinking
- Wall to Trophy 'Art': Portableising Persepolis
- Thoman Kline Advises MoB
- 'Cultural Property Observer': Archaeologists Looti...
- The Vast Majority of Antiquities Sold Online Are P...
- Balfour and his Middle Eastern Legacy
- Looted Antiquities Flood Sites Like Amazon, Facebook
- Why the United States Needs to be in UNESCO
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The popular You Tube personality "Miniminuteman" (Boston, Massachusetts-based Milo Rossi) came to my attention through the recent ... -
The press service of the Ukrainian Security S... -
A Mother Goddess figurine, dating back 9,000 years, discovered in the 1960s during excavat... -
"We ask the question. Is Metal Detecting Ruining Archaeology?" ummm, yeah... duh. And it's not just the "nighthawks"...
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A chip on the shoulder: @graceygrumble 1 month ago (edited) Detectorists and 'amateur' historians have made incalculable contributi...
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The guys claiming on social media that super-accurate measurements with extremely sophisticated machinery of 'ancient' stone vases... -
An ancient site was damaged by artefact hunters who accidentally discovered an Etruscan cemetery on their land in Citta della Pieve, locat...
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The UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict has decided to grant provisional enhanced pr...
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Raphael Kutscher, ' Ur-Lisi and Other Officials on Three Umma Tablets from Tokyo Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology ...
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A Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting in England and Wales (2018)
I started this counter at midnight of 15th July 2018. Revised Artefact Erosion Counter for Artefact Hunting.
Related sites
- David Gill - Looting matters
- ECHO Egyptian Cultural Heritage Orgnization
- Elginism
- Erik Nemeth et al. Art World Intelligence
- Ethical Antiquities Collecting: Ancient Heritage
- Global Heritage Fund
- Halte au pillage du Patrimoine Archéologique et Historique
- Heritage Action
- Heritage Key
- Heritage Watch
- Illicit Cultural Property
- It Surfaced Down Under!
- Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation
- Loot blog (Nora Mattern)
- Looting History
- Michael McCullough LLC Blog
- Museum Security Network (Google)
- Nathan Elkins - Numismatics and Archaeology
- Nord on Art
- Pieces of the Past: Ethical Antiquities Collecting
- Protecting China's Archaeological Heritage
- René Teijgeler - Culture in Development
- Research into Crimes against Art Association
- Ricardo A. St. Hilaire - Cultural Heritage Lawyer
- SAFE - Saving Antiquities For EVERYONE
- SAFECorner
- Sam Hardy 'Conflict Antiqiuties'
- Stanford Archaeology Center, Cultural Heritage Resource
- Stanford Cultural Heritage Resource - Chronicle
- The Chasing Aphrodite Blog
- The Cultural Property & Archaeology Law Blog
- The heritage Journal (Heritage Action's blog)
- The Punching Bag Larry Rothfield
- Things You Can't Take Back
- Trafficking Culture (Glasgow)
- Tumblr - Cultural Security
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Further Information
- AAMD (Association of Art Museum Directors)
- CBA (UK) - current issues: Portable Antiquities
- Code of Practice for "Responsible Metal Detecting" in England and Wales
- Cultural Heritage Lawyer - Ricardo St. Hilaire
- Cultural Security
- European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
- Fighting the Illicit Traffic of Cultural Property (ICOM)
- IFAR International Foundation for Art Research
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (UK) - now sadly closed
- International Cultural Property Protection (US Dept of State)
- Interpol - stolen art works
- Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide
- Museum Security Network
- Portable Antiquities Scheme (UK)
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- Treasure Trove Unit (UK - Scotland)
- UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
- UNESCO Website
- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects
Apologists and Propagandists of the Current Form of the No-Questions-Asked Antiquities Trade etc.
- 2015 Petition: "Für den Erhalt des privaten Sammelns [sic]"
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of EGYPT (Docket DOS-2014-0008)
- Cultural Property Observer (Peter Tompa - lawyer)
- Moneta-L (coiney discussion list, mostly US and ancients- biased)
- Unidroit-L (rather moribund 'discussion' group)
- Yahoo Ancient Artifacts discussion group
- Uncleanedcoin Chat List
- The Ancient Art Market (blog, some "art consultant")
- Ancient Coin Coillectors' Guild (US lobby group)
- Ancient Coins & Cultural Heritage (blog, De La Fe - US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coins (Dave Welsh - US part-time coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Collecting (Wayne Sayles - US coin dealer)
- Ancient & World Coin Geek (blog, US coin dealer)
- Ancient Coin Trade (Jorg Lueke - US coin collector)
- Public Submissions on Notice of Receipt by the US State Department of Cultural Property Request From the Government of GREECE (Docket DOS-2010-0339)
- Past Times and Present tensions (John Hooker)
False "Barford" Blogs, Not Actually by Paul Barford
Abbreviations used in this blog
- "coiney" - a term I use for private collector of dug up ancient coins, particularly a member of the Moneta-L forum or the ACCG
- "heap-of-artefacts-on-a-table-collecting" the term rather speaks for itself, an accumulation of loose artefacts with no attempt to link each item with documented origins. Most often used to refer to metal detectorists (ice-cream tubs-full) and ancient coin collectors (Roman coins sold in aggregated bulk lots)
- "tekkie" - metal detectorist/metal detecting (a form of artefact hunting)
- ACCG - Ancient Coin Collectors' (sic) Guild
- CBA - Council for British Archaeology [UK]
- CCPIA (CPIA) - (Convention on) Cultural Property Implementation Act [US legislation]
- CDE - Collection-Driven Exploitation of archaeological sites
- CPAC - Cultural Property Advisory Committee [US]
- FLO - Finds Liaison Officer (post in the PAS)
- HER - Historic Environment Record [UK]
- IAPN - International Association of Professional Numismatists
- MENA - Middle East and North Africa
- PAS - Portable Antiquities Scheme
- PNG - Professional Numismatists' Guild
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNESCO 1970 Convention - Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property
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