The Fenton Vase is visiting Glasgow as part of the Trafficking Culture exhibition at the Hunterian Museum.
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Cultural guardian confronts the looters, a profile of… me
Posted on 15 January 2015
*Blush*/*Shameless self promotion*
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Failures and consequences of antiquities trafficking policy: rethinking ‘country-specific’ regulation
Posted on 19 December 2014
A taster abstract for one of the journal papers I have “in submission”.
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Cultural Property Crime: An Overview and Analysis on Contemporary Perspectives and Trends
Posted on 17 November 2014
With a chapter by me!
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Ethically questionable AIA St Louis Maya vessel sells for over 2x estimate
Posted on 13 November 2014
Yep. Someone bought those ethically questionable Mesoamerican pieces sold at Bonhams.
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Archaeological Institute of America St. Louis Society selling Meosamerican antiquities at auction
Posted on 27 October 2014
Does the sale of ‘clean’ antiquities encourage the black market? Ethical questions.
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Researching the global trade in looted cultural objects (slides with audio)
Posted on 6 August 2014
I am (slowly) adding audio to all of my online presentations and here is the first.
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Dance of the Maize God: a beautiful film about the pillaging of the Maya past
Posted on 24 July 2014
Out of the looters trench and on to the computer in less than an hour: a film review from Belize.
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“This is my livelihood”: Maya Mountains cave story
Posted on 21 July 2014
This story comes from a Belizean hostel shareholder who lives along the Hummingbird Highway surrounded by cave-filled mountains.
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“It’s sad because something beautiful was destroyed”: Bus stop story
Posted on 16 July 2014
I heard this while waiting for a bus on the Western Highway. I let two buses pass talking to this guy.
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Hollywood’s ancient Maya: illegal movie footage as trafficked cultural property?
Posted on 13 July 2014
Illegal filming at Mexican archaeological sites carries stiff penalties, as some filmmakers may soon find out.
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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.