Stevenson, AE;
(2016)
Conflict antiquities and conflicted antiquities: addressing commercial sales of legally excavated artefacts.
Antiquity
, 90
(349)
pp. 229-236.
10.15184/aqy.2015.188.
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Abstract
When the antiquities trade is discussed in archaeology it is often prefixed with the pejorative adjective ‘illicit’. ‘Archaeology without context’ is a rallying cry for the archaeological profession to mobilise its collective voice in order to petition against the sale of heritage where an object's history is opaque and very probably a result of destructive looting (Chippindale et al.2001; Brodie 2006). The vocal campaign of the last decade to ensure that high-profile sales and museum acquisitions of material without documented collection histories do not encourage or sanction looting (e.g. Renfrew 2000; Brodie et al. 2006) has had some success, although objects without findspots continue to surface on the market.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Conflict antiquities and conflicted antiquities: addressing commercial sales of legally excavated artefacts |
| Location: | UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2015.188 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2015.188 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1468129 |
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