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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Aug 23

🏺“Israel and the settlers whom you have joined have weaponized archaeology in Jerusalem and the West Bank, using it as a lever to dispossess Palestinians,” www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologis...

Archaeologists dig in against antiquities bill aiming to deepen Israel’s hold on West Bank

A push to shift oversight of excavations in the territory to a civilian authority sparks worries of creeping annexation, with researchers fearing they'll bear brunt of any backlash

www.timesofisrael.com

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Aug 14

✒️🏺new special thematic issue - Caring for Culture. #openaccess #archaeology #heritage www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺👏

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Aug 12

@jebarr.bsky.social ricochet.media/indigenous/d... I'm sure you are watching this contemporary "department store" sale

Despite requests from Indigenous leaders, HBC artifacts will not be returned

Those interested in the items have been required to sign non-disclosure agreements

ricochet.media

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Jul 12

Good read

Artemis Papatheodorou @artemis-p.bsky.social · Jul 7

I'm interested in late Ottoman-period publications (books, periodicals, etc.) on antiquities/Antiquity (broadly defined) in the languages spoken/written in Anatolia: Ottoman Turkish, Greek, Karamanlidika, Armenian, Ladino, etc. If you could help, please PM me ([email protected]). I'd be grateful!

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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · Jun 26

“Laws are living documents that should change with the times,” write Tess Davis & @helenaarose.bsky.social.

In AAP’s latest FirstView piece, they examine the roles of the CPIA in combating the #illicittrade & propose strategies to improve current practices for safeguarding #culturalheritage.

Antiquated Policy? Rethinking Cultural Property Agreements with Foreign Governments under US Law | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core

Antiquated Policy? Rethinking Cultural Property Agreements with Foreign Governments under US Law

www.cambridge.org

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plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social · Jun 10

If this article is accurate, the EU does not sweat the "small stuff", viz., antiquities that are worth less than 18,000 euros and are 200 years or older and not produced within the EU.. Most plundered objects fall under this value exception. Ergo...
news.artnet.com/multimedia/a...

Antiquities Face More Red Tape | Artnet News

New import regulations in Europe are compounding an already confusing trade landscape. Plus, what are the art hot spots this summer?

news.artnet.com

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · Jun 9

Archaeological looting is a common consequence of war. Recently I spoke with several experts to better understand this relationship at Khirbet Keila, a 4,000-year-old archaeological site in Palestine’s West Bank.

New at @science.org 🧪🏺

#Archaeology #Gaza #Paleosky #AntiquesTrafficking #Heritage

As war rages in Gaza, archaeological looting in the West Bank has spiked

Economic collapse in Palestinian territories has led to illegal digs at prominent Bronze Age site, new study finds

www.science.org

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Mark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social · May 28

“more is at stake than just this paper. Many of the authors of the work on Tall el-Hammam were involved in a 2007 paper, also published in a leading scientific publication, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”

www.iflscience.com/tunguska-lik...
www.iflscience.com/tunguska-lik...

Tunguska-Like Event May Not Have Inspired Biblical Tale Of Sodom and Gomorrah After All

The idea made for a hard-to-resist story, but the claims were built on sand in more ways than one.

www.iflscience.com

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · May 24

Happened on community archaeology in Greenwich Park @uclarchaeology.bsky.social

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · May 18

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · May 17

Walked the path of the ancient river Fleet

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Mark Boslough @boslough.bsky.social · Apr 24

Retraction Watch just announced the pending retraction of the Comet Research Group's Sodom & Gomorrah pseudoarchaeology paper. The authors are not taking it well. retractionwatch.com/2025/04/23/s...

Sodom comet paper to be retracted two years after editor’s note acknowledging concerns

The authors’ reconstruction of what the blast’s impact area may have been. Source Scientific Reports will retract a controversial paper claiming to present evidence an ancient city in t…

retractionwatch.com

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Art Collection Ethics @uofdenver-ace.bsky.social · Apr 7

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced the return of 12 antiquities to Cyprus and a 6th-century Silver Medallion to Spain, recovered through investigations into illegal antiquities trafficking, including the case of convicted dealer Robin Symes.

Read full story here: bit.ly/4jelHbx

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Michael Press @michaeldpress.bsky.social · Mar 29

Laundering looted antiquities through the use of an old collection? Forged provenance documentation? I investigate the case of Cumberland Clark, a forgotten early 20th-century collector who has become relevant again
doi.org/10.1017/S094...

Constructing Provenance with Old Collections: The Case of Cumberland Clark | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core

Constructing Provenance with Old Collections: The Case of Cumberland Clark

doi.org

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Mar 25

Using antiquities as decor. With a little Plato thrown in.

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Mar 10

Cool

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Mar 6

Will pass this along!

@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Mar 6

Today my students wanted to know if you all will be bringing shards back to Chicago. We were talking about storage and partage

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Mar 5

Tokens, also interesting and definitely a possibility

@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Mar 4

We might label them as stoppers or lids in the Chalco/EB

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Feb 16

Go see this film

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Feb 6

Further normalization of occupied archaeology. arch-js.co.il?page_id=781&... imagine presenting a keynote on Iraq and Syria in this context. #archaeology 🏺

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@mokersel @mokersel.bsky.social · Feb 1

Checking out Athena at Wrightwood659

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The University of Chicago Legal Forum @uchilegalforum.bsky.social · Jan 31

@mokersel.bsky.social and @pgerstenblith.bsky.social survey the legal changes since ISIL’s looting of cultural heritage sites in the 2010s and find that cultural heritage protection remains trapped in an inconsistent and reactive, rather than proactive, framework.

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