Illicit Antiquities
Research Centre
against the theft & traffic
of archaeology

Further reading

Listed here are some of the wide range of books, articles and other publications useful for research into illicit antiquities.

Bogdanos, M & W. Patrick. 2005. Thieves of Baghdad. New York and London:  Bloomsbury

Bogdanos, M. 2005. The casualties of war:  the truth about the Iraq museum. American Journal of Archaeology, 109, 477-526

 Briat, M. & Freedberg, J. A. 1996. Legal Aspects of International Trade in Art. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.

 Brodie, N.J. & Tubb K.W. (eds) 2002. Illicit Antiquities: The Theft of Culture and the Extinction of Archaeology. London: Routledge.

 Brodie, N.J., Doole, J. & Renfrew, C. (eds) 2001. Trade in Illicit Antiquities: the Destruction of the World's Archaeological Heritage. Cambridge: McDonald Institute.

 Brodie, N.J., Doole, J. & Watson, P. 2000. Stealing History: The Illicit Trade in Cultural Material. Cambridge: McDonald Institute.
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Brodie, N, M. Kersel et al.  2006.  Archaeology, Cultural Heritage and the Antiquities Trade. Florida:  University of Florida Press

 Chamberlain, K. 2004. War and Cultural Heritage. Leicester: Institute of Art and Law.

Chippindale, C. & D. W. Gill.  2000.  Material consequences of contemporary Classical collecting.  American Journal of Archaeology 104.3

Fitz Gibbon, K.  2005.  Who Owns the Past?: Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law.  New York:  Rutgers University

 Gill, D. & Chippindale, C. 1993. Material and intellectual consequences of esteem for Cycladic figures, American Journal of Archaeology 97, 601–59.

Hoffman, B. (ed.) 2005. Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

 Hoving, T. 1993. Making the Mummies Dance. New York: Touchstone.

 International Journal of Cultural Property, 1998, 7(1).

Jarvis, H.  The 'Looting Question' bibliography.

 Kirkpatrick, S. D. 1992. The Lords of Sipán:  A True Story of Pre-Inca Tombs, Archaeology, and Crime. New York: Henry Holt.

 Lafont, M. 2004. Pillaging Cambodia. The Illicit Traffic in Khmer Art. Jefferson NC: McFarland.

 Leyton, H. (ed). 1995. Illicit Trade in Cultural Property: Museums against Pillage. Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute.

 Messenger, P. M. (ed.) 1999. The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property. Alberquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

 Meyer, K. E. 1974. The Plundered Past: The Traffic in Art Treasures. London: Readers Union.

Norskøv, V.  2001.  Greek Vases in New Contexts: Collecting and Trading of Greek Vases an Aspect of Modern Reception of Antiquity.  Aarhus:  Aarhus University Press

 O’Keefe, P.J. 2000. Commentary on the UNESCO 1970 Convention on Illicit Traffic. Leicester: Institute of Art and Law.

 O'Keefe, P. J. 1997. Trade in Antiquities:  Reducing Destruction and Theft. London: Archetype and UNESCO

 Pal, H. B. 1992. The Plunder of Art. New Delhi: Abhinav.

Prott, L.V. & O’Keefe, P.J. 1989. Law and the Cultural Heritage. Volume 3. Movement. London: Butterworths.

 Prott, L.V. 1997. Commentary on the Unidroit Convention. Leicester: Institute of Art and Law. 

 Renfrew, C.  2002. Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology S.) London:  Gerald Duckworth and Co.

Robson, E, L. Treaswell & C. Gosden (eds.).  2006. Who Owns Objects?: The Ethics and Politics of Collecting Cultural Artefacts (Paperback).  Oxford:  Oxbow books.

 Russell, John. M. 1998. The Final Sack of Nineveh. Yale: Yale University Press.

 Schick, J. 1998. The Gods are Leaving the Country. Bangkok: Orchid Press.

 Schmidt, P. R. and McIntosh, R. J. (eds) 1996. Plundering Africa's Past. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

 Staley, D.P. 1993. St. Lawrence Island's Subsistence Diggers: A New Perspective on Human Effects on Archaeological Sites. Journal of Field Archaeology 20, 347-55.

 Stead, I. M. 1998. The Salisbury Hoard. Stroud: Tempus.

Toner, M.  2002.  The Past in Peril. Atlanta:  Southeast Archeological Center, National Park Service

 Tubb, K. W. (ed.) 1995. Antiquities: Trade or Betrayed. London: Archetype.

 Unesco Courier 2001. Focus: Stop the art thieves, 16–37, April.

 van Rijn, Michel. 1993. Hot Art, Cold Cash. London: Little, Brown and Company.

 van Velzen, D.T. 1996. The world of Tuscan tomb robbers: living with the local community and the ancestors. International Journal of Cultural Property 5, 111–26.

 Vitelli, K. D. (ed.) 1996. Archaeological Ethics. London: Sage.

Watson, P  C. Todeschini.  2006. The Medici Conspiracy: Organized Crime, Looted Antiquities, Rogue Museums. Public Affairs.

 Watson, P. 1997. Sotheby's: The Inside Story. London: Bloomsbury.

 Zimmerman, L.J., Vitelli, K.D. & Hollowell-Zimmer, J. (ed.) (2003). Ethical Issues in Archaeology. Walnut Creek: AltaMira. 

Last updated September 2006