Safeguarding cultural heritage
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Treasure hunting on Hilton Head? Town law says to leave those relics alone
Archaeological artifacts not to be disturbed, according to law
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Conserving The Past Through Play: Educational Gaming and Anti-Looting Outreach in Cambodia
Elkins, N.T., 2009. Treasure Hunting 101 in America’s Classrooms, Journal of Field Archaeology 34.4: 482-489
Reents-Budet, Dorie, 1994. “Collecting Pre-Columbian Art and Preserving the Archaeological Past,” Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classical Period., Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Extension of Import Restrictions on Antiquities From Colombia
Ken Matsumoto, 2004. The State of the Iraqi Cultural Heritage After the Iraq War and the Measures Which Should Be Taken Now: A View from the UNESCO Mission’s Investigations in Iraq (In Japanese), Al-Rafidan: Journal of Western Asiatic Studies. Vol 25, P 43-56
A Swiss-British Conference on the Traffic in Artifacts from Iraq, Afghanistan and Beyond
Sease, C., 1997. Conservation and the Antiquities Trade, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 36.1, pp. 49-58
Paul Bator, 1983. The International Trade in Art, University of Chicago Press
Michael F. Brown, 2003. Who Owns Native Culture?, Harvard University Press
Kate Fitz Gibbon, 2005. Who Owns the Past?: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law, Rutgers University Press
Regional Expert Meeting on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
The U.S. Legal Response to the Protection of the World Cultural Heritage
UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
Meskell, L. (ed) , 1998. Archaeology Under Fire, London: Routlege
Couvalis, George and Helen Macdonald, 1996. Cultural Heritage, Property, and the Position of Australian Aboriginals, Law in Context Vol. 14, No. 2 Chanock, M. and Simpson, C. (eds.), La Trobe University Press, pp. 141-161
Wylie, Alison, 1996. Ethical Dilemmas in Archaeological Practice: Looting, Repatriation, Stewardship, and the (Trans)formation of Disciplinary Identity, Perspectives on Science 4:154-194
Zimmerman, L, K. Vitelli and J. Hollowell-Zimmer (eds), 2003. Ethical Issues in Archaeology, Walnut Creek: Altamira Press
Lynott, Mark J. and Alison Wylie (eds), 2001. Ethics in American Archaeology, Washington DC: Society for American Archaeology
St. Clair, 2008. Protecting Cultural Heritage: Essays from the Field, ed. A. typescript
Messenger, Phyllis Mauch (ed), 1999. The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press
Leiboff, Marett, 1996. Treasure, objects and items: the legal protection of the archaeological heritage in England, Law in Context, Vol. 14, No. 2. Chanock, M. and Simpson, C. (eds.), La Trobe University Press, pp. 91-114
Janeway, Michael and András Szántó, 2001. Who Owns Culture?, National Arts Journalism Program: New York
R.E. Stipe, 1983. A Richer Heritage, The University of North Carolina Press.
Mark Lynott and Alison Wylie, 1995. Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s, Society for American Archaeology
AIA Statement on Museum Acquisitions and Loans of Antiquities and Ancient Art Works
U.S. deposits its instrument of ratification of the 1954 Hague Convention
The Law of the Sea Treaty and Underwater Cultural Resources [via JSTOR]
Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
Historical Wrecks and Underwater Cultural Heritage, South Africa Heritage Resource Agency
International Law for the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: Can Our Past be Salvaged?
Raising Standards: A Modern Framework for Protecting Our Common Maritime Heritage
The Antiquities Act: Regulating Salvage of Historic Shipwrecks
The Fig and The Spade: Countering the Deceptions of Treasure Hunters
Elia, R.J., 2000. U.S. Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage Beyond the Territorial Sea: Problems and Prospects
Boesten, E., 2001. Archaeological and/or Historic Valuable Shipwrecks in International Wares: Public International Law and What it Offers. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press.
Dromgoole, S. (ed.), 2006. The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage: National Perspectives in Light of the UNESCO Convention 2001
O’Keefe, P.J., 2008. Shipwrecked Heritage: A Commentary on the UNESCO Convention on Underwater Cultural Heritage
Street, T., 2006. Underwater Cultural Heritage Policies of the United States Coastal Zone
Gill, D.W.J., 2007. Review of Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade (2006) and Who Owns Objects? The Ethics and Politics of Collecting Cultural Artefacts (2006), Journal of Field Archaeology 32: 103-106
“The Veracity of “Scientific” Testing by Conservators”, Oscar Muscarella
