December 6, 2019
…Policy, Cultural Heritage, and the American Southwest, July 27, 2019. [1] Presidential Proclamation — Establishment of the Bears Ears National Monument, President Barak Obama, December 28, 2016, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/12/28/proclamation-establishment-bears-ears-national-monument [2] Id….
August 23, 2018
…impact of toxic effluent and environmental damage to the surrounding communities. Already, the Chinese company MJAM (formed by China Metallurgical Group Corporation, or MCC, and Jianxi Copper, Ltd) has completely…
March 25, 2017
…as we value the free movement of people, literature, and ideas.” So writes Gary Vikan, Committee for Cultural Policy (CCP) President and former director of the Walters Art Museum in…
December 12, 2021
…accommodate parishioners from nearby St. James Church between 1788 and 1853. After laws were passed to prohibit burial inside city, thousands of burials were moved and the area was remade…
October 30, 2017
…not because the Iranian authorities were trying to preserve the site, but because the Met was outbid by commercial diggers.) For example, from the Introduction: “Here it may be said…
February 2, 2019
…The Treasure Act 1996: Code of Practice. For questions, the contact address is treasure@culture.gov.uk. What is Treasure today? In summary, under current law, the Portable Antiquities Scheme website defines Treasure…
September 30, 2020
…a potential cultural property MoU with Turkey that is pitched as a measure to save cultural heritage from looting? EG: When I first testified to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee,…
February 1, 2021
…(“Congress only authorized the imposition of import restrictions on objects that were ‘first discovered within, and [are] subject to the export control by the State Party.”). [iii] 19 C.F.R. §12.104(a)(2)(i)…
September 20, 2017
…no commercial value, the shards were archaeological research materials. It was not known at the time what happened to the boxes of shards, nor what else might have been taken…
September 19, 2018
…lands on Easter Island and developed a tourist trade with passing ships. Throughout the 1880s, British, German and American archeological expeditions conducted research on the island and in 1888 Salmon…