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  • AR 342/742 Archaeology in the Holy Land
  • AR 480/780 – Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Ethics, and the Law
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10/03: Loot, part 2: the nation-state and cultural blackmail

Parthenon frieze BM 1

  • John Merryman, “Thinking About the Elgin Marbles,” Michigan Law Review 83 (1985), pp. 1880-1923.
  • Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Where Gods Yearn for Long-Lost Treasures,” NY Times 10/28/2007
  • John Tierney, “A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’,” NY Times11/17/2009
  • Tierney comments: tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/who-should-own-the-rosetta-stone/#comments

  • AR 480/780 – Who Owns the Past? Archaeology, Ethics, and the Law

    • Additional Reading
      • 09/12: The issue, head-on
      • 09/26: Loot, part 1: colonialism, theft, and the market
      • 10/03: Loot, part 2: the nation-state and cultural blackmail
      • 10/17: Competing Priorities
      • 10/24: The Hague Convention and national patrimony
      • 10/31: Native Americans and NAGPRA
      • 11/07: Archaeologists and the State Department
      • 11/14: The Long View
      • 11/21: Dead and gone?
      • 11/28: What’s to be done?
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      • Cultural Property: Legal Issues and updates
      • Loot, Plunder, and Stolen Goods
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      • World Heritage Sites, Claims and Issues
        • Iranian cultural property: court cases and updates
        • Thai-Cambodia temple dispute
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