All the king's horses essays on the impact of looting and the illicit antiquities trade on our knowledge of the past / edited by Paula Kay Lazrus and Alex W. Barker
Published
Washington, D.C. : SAA Press, Society for American Archaeology, 2012
All the king's horses : an introduction / Alex W. Barker and Paula Kay Lazrus -- The economics of the looted archaeological site of Bâb edh-Dhrâ' : a view from Google Earth / Neil Brodie and Daniel A. Contreras -- The material and intellectual consequences of acquiring the Sarpedon Krater / David Gill -- Moot loot speaks : classical archaeology and the displaced object / Stephen L. Dyson -- Unprovenienced artifacts and the invention of Minoan and Mycenaean religion / Senta C. German -- Early looting and destruction of Australian shipwreck sites : legislation, education, and an amnesty for long-term preservation / Jennifer Rodrigues -- The trade in fresh supplies of ancient coins : scale, organization, and politics / Nathan T. Elkins -- The social and political consequences of devotion to Biblical artifacts / Neil Brodie and Morag M. Kersel -- What "All the kings horses" has to say to American archaeologists / Ann M. Early
Summary
This volume from the SAA Press examines the impact of looting and the use of artifacts of unknown provenance in the humanities and social sciences, ranging from the impact of amnesty laws for reporting stolen cultural property to the use of Google Earth to assess the scale of illicit excavations, and from the impact of poorly sourced artifacts on early Mycenaean and Minoan studies to the structure of the growing commercial trade in ancient coins
