What is it about?
A response to Elizabeth Marlowe who discusses earlier research analysing archaeological ethics and the history of collecting.
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Why is it important?
Recently surfaced archaeological objects have the potential to corrupt the corpus of knowledge.
Perspectives
There is an urgency to address the issue of archaeological objects surfacing on the art market without documented collecting histories ("provenance").
Professor David WJ Gill
University of Suffolk
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This page is a summary of: Thinking About Collecting Histories: A Response to Marlowe, International Journal of Cultural Property, August 2016, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0940739116000187.
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