My presentation for the European Association of Archaeologists, Sep 2015.
Cultural guardian confronts the looters, a profile of… me
Posted on 15 January 2015
*Blush*/*Shameless self promotion*
Illicit antiquities trade, basic assertions
Posted on 21 March 2014
Here is a taster from the draft of a book chapter I am working on.
Church Theft, Insecurity, and Community Justice
Posted on 3 March 2014
I’ve just had a new paper published in the European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research: my first criminology publication!
High Crimes: Studying the Illicit Antiquities Trade in the Bolivian Andes
Posted on 27 July 2013
Yesterday I participated in the Day of Archaeology.
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.
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
Relics for Sale at Tiwanaku [Bolivia, from La Razón]
Posted on 5 November 2012
My own (horribly flawed, terrible, I am sure) translation
Location, Research and Ideas
Posted on 17 June 2012
I don’t particularly like this blog to swing into the personal, I have been told by a person wiser than myself that I should be a bit more forthcoming