Publications
The following is a reference list of academic publications written by members and Friends of the Trafficking Culture project. Publications are listed in reverse date order (i.e. newest at the top). Downloadable pdf files are present when available. Further details about these publications can be viewed by clicking on their respective titles. We ask that anyone using this material cites it appropriately.
Brodie, N. (2023) ‘Noxious scholarship? Publishing unprovenanced cuneiform tablets from Iraq’, in Brodie, N., Kersel, M.M. and Rasmussen, J.M. (eds) Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Leiden: Sidestone, pp. 95–112.
Brodie, N., Kersel, M.M. and Rasmussen, J.M. (2023) ‘Introduction: variant scholarship’, in Brodie, N., Kersel, M.M. and Rasmussen, J.M. (eds) Variant Scholarship: Ancient Texts in Modern Contexts. Leiden: Sidestone, pp. 13–19.
Graham, S., Yates, D., El-Roby, A., Brousseau, C., Ellens, J. and McDermott, C. (2023) ‘Relationship prediction in a knowledge graph embedding model of the illicit antiquities trade’, Advances in Archaeological Practice, 11(2), pp. 126–138.
Graham, S., Yates, D. and El-Roby, A. (2023) ‘Investigating antiquities trafficking with generative pre-trained transformer (GPT)-3 enabled knowledge graphs: a case study’, Open Research Europe, 3(100).
Brodie, N. (2023) ‘Academic ‘ethics’ and the Schøyen Collection Aramaic incantation bowls: a personal narrative’, Levant, 55(3), pp. 325–339.
Smith, E. and Thompson, E.L. (2023) ‘A case study of academic facilitation of the global illicit trade in cultural objects: Mary Slusser in Nepal’, International Journal of Cultural Property, pp. 1–20.
Yates, D. and Bērziņa, D. (2022) ‘Criminological frameworks for understanding Mexican antiquities in contemporary European auctions’, in Pérez-Prat Durbán, L. and Ruiz, Z. (eds) EL EXPOLIO DE BIENES CULTURALES. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva.
Brodie, N. (2022) ‘The looting and trafficking of Syrian antiquities since 2011’, in Hashemi, L. and Shelley, L. (eds) Antiquities Smuggling: In the Real and the Virtual World. London: Routledge, pp. 21–58.
Brodie, N. and Yates, D. (2022) ‘Money laundering and antiquities’, Transfer, 1, pp. 97–109.
Isber, S., Abdo, R. and Brodie, N. (2022) ‘Some new evidence documenting the involvement of Da’esh in Syria with the illicit trade in antiquities’, Journal of East Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage, 10(2), pp. 115–136.
Yates, D. (2022) ‘Creative compliance, neutralization techniques, and palaeontological ethics’, The Geological Curator, 11(7), pp. 428–435.
Yates, D. (2022) ‘Review of: Stephen Houston (ed.), A Maya Universe in Stone, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2021’, CAA Reviews.
Yates, D. and Smith, E. (2022) ‘Museums and the market: passive facilitation of the illicit trade in antiquities’, in Stevenson, A. (ed.) Handbook of Museum Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 87–97.
Yates, D. and Rausch, C. (2022) ‘Private art businesses and organized crime’, in The Private Sector and Organized Crime. London: Routledge, pp. 210–223.
Oosterman, N. and Yates, D. (eds.) (2022) Art crime in context. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Mackenzie, S. (2022) ‘Criminology towards the metaverse: cryptocurrency scams, grey economy and the technosocial’, The British Journal of Criminology, 62.
Yates, D. (2022) ‘What auction catalogue analysis cannot tell us about the market’, in Fabiani, M.D., Burmon, K.M. and Hufnagel, S. (eds) Global Perspectives on Cultural Property Crime. London: Routledge.
Brodie, N., Kersel, M.M., Mackenzie, S., Sabrine, I., Smith, E. and Yates, D. (2021) ‘Why there is still an illicit trade in cultural objects and what we can do about it’, Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(4), pp. 1–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.1996979.
Oosterman, N., Mackenzie, S. and Yates, D. (2021) ‘Regulating the wild west: symbolic security bubbles and white collar crime in the art market’, Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, pp. 1–9.