The controversy surrounding the bankruptcy of the city of Detroit
High Crimes: Studying the Illicit Antiquities Trade in the Bolivian Andes
Posted on 27 July 2013
Yesterday I participated in the Day of Archaeology.
“Plunder to Preservation” from the Oxford University Press
Posted on 7 June 2013
A chapter by me appears in a new book released this month by the Oxford University Press.
The Virgin of Copacabana has been looted
Posted on 29 April 2013
On Monday 22 of April the gold and silver accessories of the Virgin of Copacabana were robbed.
Antiquities dealer Leonardo Patterson arrested in Spain
Posted on 12 April 2013
Antiquities dealer, smuggler, and twice (at least) convicted felon Leonardo Patterson has been arrested in Spain
Belize: Anti-Looting posters!
Posted on 25 March 2013
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.