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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

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Relics for Sale at Tiwanaku [Bolivia, from La Razón]

Posted on 5 November 2012

My own (horribly flawed, terrible, I am sure) translation

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Images of historic looting

Posted on 26 October 2012

Emotional images of the looting of a Maya temple.

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Valdivia Figurines and the appeal of ‘the oldest’

Posted on 19 September 2012

The logo for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture website is about my favourite thing

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Who is googling? Evangelize or let it rest?

Posted on 7 July 2012

>For the past few days a lot of my brain juice has been focused on the website for Trafficking Culture project

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“I am the old looter and I’ve come to loot pottery”

Posted on 4 July 2012

Last night I was working on a short definition of the term “huaquero”.

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Believability, the burden of proof and Occam’s Razor

Posted on 29 April 2012

OR Carl Sagan breaks it down

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Who is in charge of Mali? Also, so much going on!

Posted on 22 March 2012

I apologize for being a bit absent recently: I am under a mountain of visa paperwork

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Antiquities in the Media: How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Posted on 27 February 2012

The use of antiquities in films and television shows

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