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Book Review

Shaky Ground by Elizabeth Marlowe

Posted on 11 September 2015

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

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