Our understanding of the most important aspects of Roman art suffers from a lack of context.
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What we’ve lost: 2 stories of the Maya Buenavista vase
Posted on 12 July 2014
In this post I will present two stories about one Maya vase: what we would have thought if the vase was looted and what we know because it wasn’t.
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Replica Monuments and Warrior Queens in Guatemala
Posted on 13 October 2012
I was delighted to hear that David Friedel, Juan Carlos Pérez, and their team have discovered a tomb at El Perú-Waka’
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Julio C. Tello, bringing context to Peru
Posted on 6 June 2012
As a component of getting back into the swing of things here in Glasgow, I have been revisiting old (and not so old) cases of Latin American looting