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News

Culture crime news 2–8 June 2014

Posted on 9 June 2014

Hot this week: Ruling delays for the Fano Bronze/Getty Bronze/Victorious Youth.

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Sacking the Necropolis: how 100 Peruvian mummy textiles ended up in Sweden

Posted on 9 June 2014

“Sweden Returns Ancient Andean Textiles to Peru“. Now that is a headline I like to see.

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Culture crime news 26 May–1 June 2014

Posted on 2 June 2014

Hot this week: e-Egypt

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PhD fieldwork advice? Give up when things are bad and mess around

Posted on 1 June 2014

Words of semi advice to students.

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Culture crime news 19–25 May 2014

Posted on 26 May 2014

Hot this week: Syrian artefacts smashed?

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“Hell yes, it was smuggled”: Stolen Cambodian statue is not the first Norton Simon has returned

Posted on 24 May 2014

Collector spent $16mil over 2 years mostly on smuggled Asian antiquities.

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When looters find lost cities: Site Q and Ixtontón

Posted on 19 May 2014

Sometimes archaeologists don’t get there first…

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Culture crime news 12–18 May 2014

Posted on 19 May 2014

Hot this week: The Santa Maria: Lost and found…by a looter?

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Culture crime news 5–11 May 2014

Posted on 12 May 2014

Hot this week: Cornelius Gurlitt—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy.

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High-altitude mummy looting: the Cerro El Plomo child

Posted on 7 May 2014

The first high-altitude frozen mummy found in Chile was located and then hidden by looters

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Culture crime news 28 April–4 May 2014

Posted on 5 May 2014

Hot this week: Egypt discussion and Egypt repatriations.

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The Power of Plausible Provenance

Posted on 28 April 2014

Presentation for the Society for American Archaeology

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