Presentation for the Society for American Archaeology
Culture crime news 21–27 April 2014
Posted on 28 April 2014
Hot this week: Forgery, forgery, forgery
Culture crime news 14–20 April 2014
Posted on 21 April 2014
Hot this week: A shameful slap on the wrist for a UK smuggler
‘God is dead and doesn’t watch’: Easter week tomb robbing on Peru’s north coast
Posted on 20 April 2014
Easter Week: the traditional time of grave robbing on Peru’s north coast.
Stolen painting? No: poor reporting.
Posted on 18 April 2014
The false theft and return of a fake of my favourite Colonial Latin American painting.
Culture crime news: 7–13 Apr 2014
Posted on 14 April 2014
Hot this week: Terrible Op-eds
“LA Times OpEd Distorts Both Archaeology and the Law”
Posted on 7 April 2014
This post is by my colleague Tess Davis who generously allowed me to repost it here.
Culture crime news: 31 Mar–06 Apr 2014
Posted on 7 April 2014
Hot this week: FBI find thousands of illicit antiquities in home of 90-year-old collector
On BBC Radio Scotland talking about antiquities trafficking
Posted on 5 April 2014
Looting in India and the difficulties involved in prosecuting this type of crime.
De Sade’s stolen 12m-long manuscript returning to France
Posted on 4 April 2014
12m long manuscript penned in the Bastille, stolen in 1982, smuggled into Switzerland, and ruled a good faith purchase in 1998.
“Cursed” stela pulled from London auction over looting concerns
Posted on 3 April 2014
Bonham’s offers a stela owned by an Anonymous Swiss Collector, withdraws piece due to looting allegations.
Two pots, two stories: vignette on the looting of Guatemala’s Maya past
Posted on 1 April 2014
How does an ancient Maya vase end up in a UK museum?