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It’s legal to set your antiquities collection on fire for a custom porn video

Posted on 9 August 2020

At least in many places. I swear this title has context.

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Academics are doing a terrible job of influencing art market policy

Posted on 8 August 2020

It’s our fault when governments use pop media instead of our research

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Stolen Maya mask returning to Guatemala from Belgium

Posted on 7 August 2020

And after a 12 year battle over the piece, this is the first I’m hearing of the case.

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White Control of Native American Culture can Never be “Responsible Collecting”

Posted on 23 July 2020

Discussing a “Discussion Article” in Antiquity

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Questioning the Mirador-Calakmul Basin Maya Security and Conservation Partnership Act (pt 1)

Posted on 19 June 2020

Why do Republicans support spending millions on protecting Maya heritage?

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CALL FOR COMMENTS on the USA/Colombia Cultural Property MOU

Posted on 18 June 2020

Help protect Colombian antiquities from trafficking

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Illicit dino feathers and exploiting legal loopholes to study fossils in Myanmar amber

Posted on 5 June 2020

Myanmar law clearly considers all fossils protected, even those in amber

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Research at the End of the World

Posted on 25 April 2020

Thoughts on starting an empirical research project during global upheaval

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Road Building and Looting of Maya sites in Southern Campeche, Mexico post-1990

Posted on 2 April 2020

Excerpt about trafficking Mesoamerican antiquities from a 2020 book chapter

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Two Antiquities Trafficking Lectures for your now-Online Class

Posted on 14 March 2020

For teaching in the time of coronavirus

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Junior Researcher Wanted! Trafficking Transformations: Objects as Agents in Transnational Criminal Networks’ project

Posted on 19 February 2020

3-year job at Maastricht University

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Auction Review: Christie’s Important Tribal Art, 7 Jul 82

Posted on 6 February 2020

Join me as a browse an antiquities sale from the past

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