Resources
The looting crisis and the antiquities trade
On-line
Buying, selling, owning the past
- Antiquities Collecting and the Looting of Archaeological Sites
- Art Theft Central
- Beyond the Nationalist-Internationalist Polarization in the Protection of Archaeological Heritage: A Response to Professor Merryman
- Conversation: The Looters Next Door
- Cultural Heritage Investigations and Repatriations
- Cultural Heritage Resource (Stanford Archaeology Center)
- Drugs, Guns and Dirt
- Ethics, E-Commerce, and the Future of the Past. SAA Bulletin 18.
- Illicit Antiquities Research Centre ( IARC )
- Illicit Antiquities Trade: Source, Transit, Market, Mafia
- International Code of Ethics for Dealers in Cultural Property
- Iraq War, 2003 Web Archive
- Is the stealing of cultural objects of others a specific cultural heritage of Europe or is it a universal heritage?
- Looting and the Antiquities Market
- Looting and Theft of Cultural Property: Are We Making Progress?
- Looting Matters Blog
- Market in Iraqi antiquities 1980-2008
- On-Line Auctions: A New Venue for the Antiquities Market
- Publishing Unprovenanced Artifacts: Further Observations
- Stealing History: The Illicit Trade in Cultural Material
- Survey: Addicts looters of U.S. archaeological sites
- The "Looting Question" Bibliography
- The Art of Looting
- The International Art Trade and the Ethics of Collecting
- The market in Iraqi antiquities 1980-2008
- The Online Sales of Antiquities
- The Portable Antiquities Scheme and the Treasure Act: Protecting the Archaeology of England and Wales?
- The Smuggling of Art, and the Art of Smuggling
- The Trade in Stolen Antiquities
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Off-line
- Tubb, K., 2002. 'Point Counterpoint' In Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and The Extinction of Archaeology, London: Routledge
- Tubb, K., 1995. Antiquities Trade or Betrayed, London: Archtype
- Brodie, Neil, and Kathryn Walker Tubb (eds), 2002. Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology, New York: Routledge
- Renfrew, Colin, 2000. Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology, Duckworth, London
- Simpson, Elizabeth, 1997. Spoils of War: World War II and its Aftermath:The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property, New York: Abrams
- Brodie, Neil, Jennifer Doole, and Colin Renfrew (eds), 2001. Trade in Illicit Antiquities: The Destruction of the World's Archaeological Heritage, McDonald Institute Monographs. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research: Cambridge
- Butcher, K. and D.W.J. Gill, 1993.
The Director, the Dealer, the Goddess and her Champions: The acquisition of the Fitzwilliam Goddess
, American Journal of Arcaheology 97: 383-401 - Chippindale, C., Gill, D.W.J., Salter, E., and C. Hamilton, 2001. Collecting the Classical World: First Steps in a Quantitative History, International Journal of Cultural Property 10: 1-31
- Sease, C., 1997. Conservation and the Antiquities Trade, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 36.1, pp. 49-58
- Hofstadter, D., 1994. Goldber's Angel: An Adventure in the Antiquities Trade, Farrar Straus Giroux
- Mackenzie, S.R.M. , 2005. Law, Regulation, and the Illicit Antiquities Market, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 45, pp. 249-268
- Chippindale, C. and D.W.J. Gill, 1993. Material and Intellectual Consquences of Esteem for Cycladic Figures, American Journal of Arcaheology 97: 601-653
- Chippindale, C. and D.W.J. Gill, 2000. Material Consequences of Contemporary Collecting, American Journal of Archaeology 104: 463-511
- O'Reilly, Dougald, 2007. Shifting Trends of Heritage Destruction in Cambodia: From Temples to Tombs, Historic Environment, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 12-16
- Greenfield, J, 1999. The Return of Cultural Treasures, Cambridge University Press
- Simpson, E., 1997. The Spoils of War, Abrams, N
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