High-five to the Belizean Institute of Archaeology.
So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend
Posted on 25 March 2013
Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.
The collection’s issues: Sotheby’s Paris Barbier-Mueller sale 2
Posted on 4 March 2013
In this post I want to talk a little bit about the (very) little that I know about the Barbier-Mueller collection.
The Sotheby’s sale of the Barbier-Mueller Collection: waxing and waning on Peruvian law.
Posted on 3 March 2013
Peru is attempting to recover 67-ish archaeological objects
Thoughts on Sotheby’s Paris’ Barbier-Mueller Collection sale, in three parts
Posted on 3 March 2013
I have been putting off posting about this subject but, as I am starting to receive emails about it
Demand for Colonial Bolivian Silver Objects: Melt it down? Sell it on?
Posted on 3 December 2012
Compiling information on South American church theft is really quite interesting.
“Community Justice” and Cultural Property: Very preliminary thoughts
Posted on 28 November 2012
During southern hemisphere winter in 2005 I was working in a Bolivian village.
Spain to ‘restore’ silver from Odyssey Marine case to Bolivia…but why?
Posted on 13 November 2012
Many of you have been following the odyssey of Odyssey Marine for some time.
[Antiquities] Trafficking Gangs Operate in Bolivia (in English)
Posted on 8 November 2012
Second installment of my translations of a feature the La Razón published on cultural property crime in Bolivia
Sad comments by Cleveland Museum curator: A looted Wari pouch ‘symbolizes the entire exhibition’
Posted on 6 November 2012
Remember that unprovenienced and underprovenanced Wari hide pouch
Relics for Sale at Tiwanaku [Bolivia, from La Razón]
Posted on 5 November 2012
My own (horribly flawed, terrible, I am sure) translation
Maya Murals, Mercury, and Risk
Posted on 30 October 2012
It seems like Maya tomb news is coming hot and heavy these past few weeks.