Thoughts on professional inaction
On early career research, the future, and focus (focus, focus)
Posted on 7 February 2014
It has been quite some time since I have written in this blog.
Does the Illicit Antiquities Trade Fund al-Qaida?
Posted on 2 November 2013
Spoiler. I have seen NO public evidence that links the illicit antiquities trade directly to al-Qaida. Sorry. Please contact me with evidence if you have it.
Sipán: A case-study of circumventing cultural property regulation
Posted on 22 October 2013
Last month the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime invited me to Vienna
Conclusions: South American antiquities auctions and my academic past
Posted on 6 September 2013
My masters conclusion
Looting Río Azul and “looting” the Detroit Institute of Arts
Posted on 27 July 2013
The controversy surrounding the bankruptcy of the city of Detroit
High Crimes: Studying the Illicit Antiquities Trade in the Bolivian Andes
Posted on 27 July 2013
Yesterday I participated in the Day of Archaeology.
“Plunder to Preservation” from the Oxford University Press
Posted on 7 June 2013
A chapter by me appears in a new book released this month by the Oxford University Press.
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.
Antiquities dealer Leonardo Patterson arrested in Spain
Posted on 12 April 2013
Antiquities dealer, smuggler, and twice (at least) convicted felon Leonardo Patterson has been arrested in Spain
Belize: Anti-Looting posters!
Posted on 25 March 2013
High-five to the Belizean Institute of Archaeology.
So they sold that Barbier-Mueller stuff over the weekend
Posted on 25 March 2013
Sotheby’s finished up their Barbier-Mueller sale of pre-Columbian antiquities and it went, roughly, as expected.