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.
Yates, D. (2014) ‘Lost cities and looted tombs: Studying artifact smuggling in Belize’, Day of Archaeology, 11 July.
Mackenzie, S. (2014) ‘Conditions for guilt-free consumption in a transnational criminal market’, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. DOI 10.1007/s10610-013-9229-z
Yates, D. (2014) ‘Lies, damned lies, and archaeologists: antiquities trafficking research as criminology and the ethics of identification’, AP: Arqueología Pública Special Volume, 1.
Thomas, S. (2014) ‘Comments on Josephine Munch Rasmussen: “Securing cultural heritage objects and fencing stolen goods? A case study on museums and metal detecting in Norway”’, Norwegian Archaeological Review, 47(2), pp. 196–199.
Thomas, S. (2014) ‘Vulnerable by design: theft and Finnish architecture’, The Historic Environment, 5(3), pp. 231–244.
Thomas, S. (2014) ‘Movement of cultural objects in and through Finland: an analysis in a regional context’, European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.
Brodie, N., Dietzler, J. and Mackenzie, S. (2013) ‘Trafficking in cultural objects: an empirical overview’, in Manacorda, S. and Visconti, A. (eds.) Beni culturali e sistema penale. Milano: Vita e Pensiero, pp. 19–30.
Tsirogiannis, C. (2013) ‘Something is confidential in the state of Christie’s’, Journal of Art Crime, 9, pp. 3–19.
Tsirogiannis, C. (2013) ‘A marble statue of a boy at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’, The Journal of Art Crime, 9, pp. 55–60.
Brodie, N. and Bowman Proulx, B. (2013) ‘Museum malpractice as corporate crime? The case of the J. Paul Getty Museum’, Journal of Crime and Justice.
Yates, D. (2013), ‘High Crimes: Studying the illicit antiquities trade in the Bolivian Andes’. Day of Archaeology, 26 July.
Tsirogiannis, C. (2013) ‘From Apulia to Virginia: an Apulian Gnathia askos at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’, The Journal of Art Crime, 10, pp. 81–86.
Yates, D. (2013) ‘Publication as preservation: a remote Maya site in the early 20th century’, in Swenson, A. and Mandler, P. (eds.) From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, 1800–1950. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Yates, D. (2013) ‘The theft of cultural property in Bolivia: the absence of metal detectors’, AP: Arqueología Pública, 3, pp. 10–13.
Thomas, S. (2013) ‘Brian Hope-Taylor, the Council for British Archaeology, and “The need for adequate archaeological propaganda”’, Public Archaeology, 12(2), pp. 101–116.
Thomas, S. (2013) ‘Editorial: portable antiquities: archaeology, collecting, metal detecting’, Internet Archaeology, 33.
Brodie, N. (2012) ‘Uncovering the antiquities market’, in Skeates, R., McDavid, C. and Carman, J. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 230–252.
Brodie, N. and Contreras, D. (2012) ‘The economics of the looted archaeological site of Bâb edh-Dhrâ: a view from Google Earth’, in Lazrus, P.K. and Barker, A.W. (eds.) All The Kings Horses: Looting, Antiquities Trafficking and the Integrity of the Archaeological Record. Washington DC: Society for American Archaeology, pp. 9–24.
Brodie, N. and Kersel, M.M. (2012) ‘The social and political consequences of devotion to Biblical artifacts’, in Lazrus, P.K. and Barker, A.W. (eds.) All The Kings Horses: Looting, Antiquities Trafficking and the Integrity of the Archaeological Record. Washington DC: Society for American Archaeology.