“Sweden Returns Ancient Andean Textiles to Peru“. Now that is a headline I like to see.
PhD fieldwork advice? Give up when things are bad and mess around
Posted on 1 June 2014
Words of semi advice to students.
“Hell yes, it was smuggled”: Stolen Cambodian statue is not the first Norton Simon has returned
Posted on 24 May 2014
Collector spent $16mil over 2 years mostly on smuggled Asian antiquities.
When looters find lost cities: Site Q and Ixtontón
Posted on 19 May 2014
Sometimes archaeologists don’t get there first…
High-altitude mummy looting: the Cerro El Plomo child
Posted on 7 May 2014
The first high-altitude frozen mummy found in Chile was located and then hidden by looters
The Power of Plausible Provenance
Posted on 28 April 2014
Presentation for the Society for American Archaeology
‘God is dead and doesn’t watch’: Easter week tomb robbing on Peru’s north coast
Posted on 20 April 2014
Easter Week: the traditional time of grave robbing on Peru’s north coast.
Stolen painting? No: poor reporting.
Posted on 18 April 2014
The false theft and return of a fake of my favourite Colonial Latin American painting.
“LA Times OpEd Distorts Both Archaeology and the Law”
Posted on 7 April 2014
This post is by my colleague Tess Davis who generously allowed me to repost it here.
On BBC Radio Scotland talking about antiquities trafficking
Posted on 5 April 2014
Looting in India and the difficulties involved in prosecuting this type of crime.
De Sade’s stolen 12m-long manuscript returning to France
Posted on 4 April 2014
12m long manuscript penned in the Bastille, stolen in 1982, smuggled into Switzerland, and ruled a good faith purchase in 1998.
“Cursed” stela pulled from London auction over looting concerns
Posted on 3 April 2014
Bonham’s offers a stela owned by an Anonymous Swiss Collector, withdraws piece due to looting allegations.