2008

Valuing the past

Thieves steal remains from Civil War-era graves

National parks robbed of heritage

Relic thefts ‘huge crime problem’ in U.S. parks

Italy unveils returned Euphronius vase

Collector Returns Art Italy Says Was Looted

Ancient mask from Alaska ghost village returned to descendants more than a
century later

Praque: illicit hoard discovered after relic hunter’s death

From Sicily, to Templesman, to UVa Museum, back to Sicily

Stolen Oplontis fresco, recovered in Paris, unveiled in Rome

Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center

Heritage Watch International

The Restoring Ancient Stabiae Foundation

American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation

Market in Iraqi antiquities 1980-2008

Donny George‚ Convocation address on The Looting of the Iraq National Museum at the College Art Association’s Dallas-Fort Worth conference

St. Clair, 2008. Protecting Cultural Heritage: Essays from the Field, ed. A. typescript

Cultural Heritage Resource (Stanford Archaeology Center)

Illicit Antiquities Trade: Source, Transit, Market, Mafia

Is the stealing of cultural objects of others a specific cultural heritage of Europe or is it a universal heritage?

Culture and Development

AAMD: our members should “normally” not acquire loot

Chippindale, C. and D.W.J. Gill, 2008. South Italian Pottery in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acquired since 1983, Journal of Field Archaeology 33: 462-472

UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database

Art and Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter, vol 1

Art and Cultural Heritage Law Newsletter, vol 3

Commonwealth of Australia Law, Historic Shipwrecks Act

LOST AT SEA: A treatise on the management and ownership of shipwrecks and shipwreck artifacts

Ship Reconstruction Laboratory

O’Keefe, P.J., 2008. Shipwrecked Heritage: A Commentary on the UNESCO Convention on Underwater Cultural Heritage

A Survey of the Material and Intellectual Consequences of Trading in Undocumented Ancient Coins: A Case Study on the North American Trade [peer-reviewed version of the SAFE Feature "Why Coins Matter..."], Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde 7: 1-13

The Trade in Ancient Coins in the USA: Scale and Structure (Translated and Adapted from Invited Presentations Delivered at the Hessian Police Academy and the Konferenz zum Kulturgutschutz in Berlin in 2008)

“The Veracity of “Scientific” Testing by Conservators”, Oscar Muscarella