The Heritage Journal has discussed my scepticism about the alleged find-spot of the so-called Crosby Garrett helmet.
There is an interesting expansion on legal "fibbery" and HJ rightly wonders how many objects in the PAS database have falsified find-spots.
This is a wider issue. Anyone following the Nostoi debate relating to antiquities returned from North American collections will know that collecting histories can be fabricated.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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Finds from Afrati, Crete
Source of image: Michael C. Carlos Museum Creative Commons The repatriation of Norbert Schimmel's helmets and mitrai from New York's...
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