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		<title>Anatolian Economic Ages</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/anatolian-economic-ages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dkrsman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[heritage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[antiquities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damjan Krsmanovic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are accustomed to hearing about Egypt demanding the repatriation of antiquities ever and anon, but, in the last while, Turkey has also been making waves of its own through jumping on the repatriation bandwagon, threatening to revoke excavation permits of foreign projects who hold the antiquities in question, such as the case of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=276&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>River of Treasures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This old leaflet fell out of a book on my shelf today. It&#8217;s Sheraton-sponsored advertising, c. 2003, for the notorious Bangkok antiquities mall. The title reminded me of an older image &#8211; from Louis Delaporte&#8217;s, Voyage au Cambodge (Paris, 1880). Now that&#8217;s a river of treasures.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=268&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>shiny stuff sets the agenda</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/shiny-stuff-sets-the-agenda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 22:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willanderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Will Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metal detecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Museum of Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[responsible metal detecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stirling torcs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, a group of four gold torcs dating from the Iron Age was discovered near Stirling by a metal-detectorist, reportedly on his first ever outing, and was purchased by the state under Treasure Trove laws (in Scotland the Treasure Act does not apply). A payment of £462,000, raised from public grants and donations, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=258&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>will Hawass follow Mubarak?</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/will-hawass-follow-mubarak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 12:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willanderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems almost facile to think of the consequences for archaeology of the overthrow of the Mubarak regime in Egypt. There are so many more pressing matters. Yet, the fall of the old guard, if that is what happened, will surely affect the country&#8217;s cultural policy, and perhaps the status of Egypt&#8217;s supreme guardian of antiquities, Zahi Hawass. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=249&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strangeways here we come</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2011/02/05/strangeways-here-we-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willanderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Will Anderson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Strangeways Springs has nothing to do with Manchester or The Smiths (as far as I know). It’s situated about 10,000 miles away, in the desert of South Australia, near Lake Eyre. In the 19th century it was a pastoral settlement, an Overland Telegraph Repeater Station and a point along the Ghan railway. Those are all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=237&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>mind the Queen&#8217;s and Lord Treasurer&#8217;s Remembrancer?</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/mind-the-queens-and-lord-treasurers-remembrancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willanderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Will Anderson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the person who administers archaeological finds in Scotland on behalf of the Crown. She has recently ordered that a hoard of Iron Age gold be purchased by the National Museum of Scotland. The torcs are a highly significant discovery of Iron Age metalwork. They were found near Stirling by a metal detector user, supposely on his first ever outing. He reported the finds quickly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=233&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the Crosby Garrett conspiracy</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2010/10/11/the-crosby-garrett-conspiracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willanderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christie's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crosby Garrett helmet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metal detecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portable Antiquities Scheme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This quite nauseating photograph of the &#8216;Crosby Garrett helmet&#8217; (sold for 2.3m squid) does that clever trick that auction houses specialise in. It turns an object with murky provenance, dug from the ground as scraps of mud-encrusted metal, into a fetishised piece of High Art that can be sold to generate cash and prestige. The Christie&#8217;s showgirl, Georgiana Aitken, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=228&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tarmac or prehistory? Have your say</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/tarmac-or-prehistory-have-your-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willanderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Will Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brighton Bypass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Mansell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The construction of a bypass on the outskirts of Hobart in Tasmania has been halted by a deadlock over the decision to destroy a significant Aboriginal archaeological site (said to be 42,000 BP, but I&#8217;m not sure of the basis for this date &#8211; seems really early). The state minister responsible has taken the unusual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=226&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>paying for what?</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/paying-for-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willanderson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[metal detecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Staffordshire Hoard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasure Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s great to hear that the government (through the National Heritage Memorial Fund) has pledged over £1m to secure the purchase of the Staffordshire Hoard of Anglo-Saxon metalwork &#8211; &#8216;saved for the nation&#8216;. This will go toward the £3.3m pricetag that was attached to the finds and which, under the current Treasure laws, the finder and landowner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=216&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>first conviction under Treasure Act 1996</title>
		<link>http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/first-conviction-under-treasure-act-1996/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>willanderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Will Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treasure Act 1996]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a metal detectorist/nighthawker/looter. A woman who failed to report a rare, silver artefact that she found in her back garden 14 years ago is the first person to be convicted under the Treasure Act 1996. The case is reported in the Daily Mail.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com&amp;blog=452112&amp;post=212&amp;subd=politicalarchaeology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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