The sale of preserved human heads for the European curio market in context.
Culture crime news 28 December 2015–3 January 2016
Posted on 4 January 2016
Hot this week: Easter Island head-knocking in New Zealand
Fallen Glory by James Crawford
Posted on 4 January 2016
The ‘death’ of 20 of history’s most important buildings.
Head aches: Easter Island’s missing moai
Posted on 1 January 2016
Reflecting on a broken ‘Easter Island Head’ replica, cultural loss, and return.
Culture crime news 21–27 December 2015
Posted on 30 December 2015
Hot this week: Odyssey Marine is sunk once again.
Opportunities: 24 December 2015
Posted on 23 December 2015
Learning, networking, conference and employment opportunities
Culture crime news 14–20 December 2015
Posted on 21 December 2015
Hot this week: Treasure galleons and the controversial law of the sea.
Kidnapped culture: a visit to New Zealand’s looted, smuggled, returned Motunui Panels
Posted on 20 December 2015
Pondering the past with returned antiquities in cultural context.
Antiquities Tax Fraud and Illicit Cultural Property in Latin America: 2 new papers
Posted on 19 December 2015
A whole book (that I have a chapter in) and my new article about antiquities donation tax fraud free online.
Culture crime news 7–13 December 2015
Posted on 14 December 2015
Hot this week: Ukraine, militants, stolen art
Faking Ancient Mesoamerica by Nancy L. Kelker and Karen O. Bruhns
Posted on 14 December 2015
This book will ruin you. You MUST read it.
Wanted: Antiquities Trafficking Intern
Posted on 13 December 2015
(must be a University of Glasgow Social Science PhD student…)