Why are people so afraid of accurate history?
Why are people so afraid of accurate history? pic.twitter.com/YevTj0WDSp
— Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🟧🌊🌈 (@piyushmittal) February 12, 2025
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
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.
Search the PACHI Blog
Blog Archive
-
▼
2025
(59)
-
▼
February
(26)
- Ancient Egyptian Hardstone Vessel Scanning: Just G...
- Pseudoarchaeology and "Primitive" Reasoning
- Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel, Targeting Archaeol...
- Heritage of Sovietised Mindset Thirty Years on
- UK Metal Detectorists Dream of Making Marketable F...
- What is the Matter with Metal Detectorists? Whence...
- Somebody Somehow Switched Treasure Coin Image?
- History-Destroying "Haul" Flogged off to Buy Drink...
- Too Hot to Handle: Artefact Collector Got Tired of...
- Little Oakley Detectorist John Keen.
- Cleveland Museum Drops Lawsuit Over Statue
- National Council for Metal Detecting Drops Its Gua...
- How Long Can this go on? PAS: "Record Increase for...
- Whitewashing History
- Iraq repatriates trafficked artifacts from Japan a...
- Faking the Wunderwaffe
- National Council for Metal Detecting Goes Bulgarian
- Middleman Pleads Guilty
- February 2025's Fluff Media Article on the Pleasur...
- Archaeologists Under Sanctions
- Archaeology of All of Our Days
- MAGAmerica's New "Panama Crisis" and Archaeology
- UNESCO Silent as WHL Site and Civilians Targeted ...
- Christie's Sell More Egyptian Artefacts
- Foreign Citizen Arrested in Greece Accused on Bein...
- Arrests in Syria for Antiquities and Drugs
-
▼
February
(26)
Counter
Popular Posts
-
There has been a whole series of codices and scrolls turning up in Turkey in police seizures from 'smugglers' that are being procl... -
Coiney Cliff Laubstein notes that Timelineoriginals is an "honest & respected dealer" and also notes that as guarantee of... -
In Somerset, a detectorist calling himself "Manic Dev" (Dave baker) found a hoard of Roman coins (The Kingsdon Hoard) in Feb 201...
-
The guys claiming on social media that super-accurate measurements with extremely sophisticated machinery of 'ancient' stone vases... -
The internet auction site eBay has agreed to stop selling unreported ancient artefacts from Scotland (Brian Donnolly eBay deal protects coun... -
As we all watch events around Palmyra with concern, I thought I'd have a look at what's on offer on EBay from there. Using the s... -
" We have zero interest in the illicit sale of cultural artifacts or antiquities in eBay or any eBay site " says Jack Christi... -
Have a look at this video on Facebook and cringe (Do it now, before these 'responsible detectorists' decide transparency and acco... -
A senior Iraqi official said on Friday that Baghdad has reached an initial deal with the US on the return of more than 10,000 artefacts st...
-
A few weeks ago I was discussing a presentation by Helen Geake who was suggesting that the manner in which the information about archaeolo...
.
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
Posting comments
About posting comments to this blog, please see here.
Disclaimer
Disclaimer, see here.
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
No comments:
Post a Comment