Stolen Heritage

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DC Field	Value
dc.identifier	ECF_book_483
dc.creator	Traviglia Arianna
dc.creator	Milano Lucio
dc.creator	Tonghini Cristina
dc.creator	Giovanelli Riccardo
dc.title	Stolen Heritage. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage in the EU and the MENA Region
dc.type	Edited book
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	It is a well-known fact that organised crime has developed into an international network including very diverse actors – ranging from the simple ‘grave diggers’ to powerful and wealthy white-collar professionals – that adopt illegal practices like money laundering, fraud and forgery. This criminal system, ultimately, damages and disintegrates our cultural identity and, in some cases, fosters political corruption, terrorism or civil unrest through the transnational and illicit trafficking of cultural property. The forms of ‘ownership’ of Cultural Heritage are often indistinct, and – depending on the national legislation of reference – the proprietorship and trade of historical and artistic assets of value may be legitimate or not. Casual collectors and criminals have always taken advantage from these ambiguities and managed to place on the market items obtained by destruction and looting of museums, monuments and archaeological areas. Thus, over the years, even the most renowned museum institutions might have - more or less consciously – displayed, hosted or lent cultural objects of illicit origin. Ransacking, thefts, clandestine exports and disputable transactions are crimes that primarily affect countries that are rich in artistic and archaeological assets, but such activities do not involve just some countries. This is an international border-crossing phenomenon that starts in given countries and expands to many others. Some are briefly passed through while a handful of powerful and rich ones are the actual destination marketplaces. Drawing from the experience of the conference Stolen Heritage (Venice, December 2019), held in the framework of the H2020 NETCHER (NETwork and digital platform for Cultural Heritage Enhancing and Rebuilding) project, this edited volume focuses on illicit trafficking in cultural property addressing the issue from a multidisciplinary perspective and featuring papers authored by international experts and professionals actively involved in Cultural Heritage protection. The articles included expand on such diverse topics as the European legislation regulating import, export, trade and restitution of cultural objects; ‘conflict antiquities’ and cultural heritage at risk in the Near and Middle East; looting activities and illicit excavations in Italy; the use of technologies to counter looting practices and the publication of unprovenanced items. This collection is meant as a valuable resource to disseminate new results of the research as well as to facilitate a better understanding of the international legislation related to the protection of Cultural Heritage.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Archeologia
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-517-9
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-03-31
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-518-6/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-518-6
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-517-9
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Antiquities trafficking
dc.subject	Antiquities trafficking
dc.subject	Apulian Vases
dc.subject	Apulian Vases
dc.subject	Archaeological remote sensing
dc.subject	Archaeological remote sensing
dc.subject	Art market
dc.subject	Art market
dc.subject	Art-crime
dc.subject	Art-crime
dc.subject	Brexit
dc.subject	Brexit
dc.subject	COSMO-SkyMed
dc.subject	COSMO-SkyMed
dc.subject	Change detection
dc.subject	Change detection
dc.subject	Circulation of cultural goods
dc.subject	Circulation of cultural goods
dc.subject	Conflict antiquities
dc.subject	Conflict antiquities
dc.subject	Cross-media
dc.subject	Cross-media
dc.subject	Cultural heritage
dc.subject	Cultural heritage
dc.subject	Cultural property
dc.subject	Cultural property
dc.subject	Cut-off date
dc.subject	Cut-off date
dc.subject	Cyprus
dc.subject	Cyprus
dc.subject	Directive 2014/60/EU
dc.subject	Directive 2014/60/EU
dc.subject	European Association of Archaeologists
dc.subject	European Association of Archaeologists
dc.subject	Feature extraction
dc.subject	Feature extraction
dc.subject	Funerary portraits
dc.subject	Funerary portraits
dc.subject	German Cultural Property Act
dc.subject	German Cultural Property Act
dc.subject	Germany
dc.subject	Germany
dc.subject	Giacomo Medici
dc.subject	Giacomo Medici
dc.subject	Gianfranco Becchina
dc.subject	Gianfranco Becchina
dc.subject	Google Earth
dc.subject	Google Earth
dc.subject	Heritage
dc.subject	Heritage
dc.subject	Heritage
dc.subject	Heritage
dc.subject	Illicit trade
dc.subject	Illicit trade
dc.subject	Information
dc.subject	Information
dc.subject	Internal market
dc.subject	Internal market
dc.subject	Iraq
dc.subject	Iraq
dc.subject	J
dc.subject	J
dc.subject	Looting
dc.subject	Looting
dc.subject	Looting
dc.subject	Looting
dc.subject	Looting
dc.subject	Looting
dc.subject	Louvre
dc.subject	Louvre
dc.subject	Narcotics trafficking
dc.subject	Narcotics trafficking
dc.subject	Online journalism
dc.subject	Online journalism
dc.subject	Organised Crime
dc.subject	Organised Crime
dc.subject	Organised crime
dc.subject	Organised crime
dc.subject	Organised cultural property crime
dc.subject	Organised cultural property crime
dc.subject	Palmyra
dc.subject	Palmyra
dc.subject	Pattern recognition
dc.subject	Pattern recognition
dc.subject	Paul Getty
dc.subject	Paul Getty
dc.subject	Political violence
dc.subject	Political violence
dc.subject	Preservation
dc.subject	Preservation
dc.subject	Protection of archaeological heritage
dc.subject	Protection of archaeological heritage
dc.subject	Regulation (EU) 2019/880
dc.subject	Regulation (EU) 2019/880
dc.subject	Reliefs
dc.subject	Reliefs
dc.subject	Resolution
dc.subject	Resolution
dc.subject	Satellites
dc.subject	Satellites
dc.subject	Sentinel-2
dc.subject	Sentinel-2
dc.subject	Social media
dc.subject	Social media
dc.subject	Staatliche Museen Berlin
dc.subject	Staatliche Museen Berlin
dc.subject	Synthetic Aperture Radar
dc.subject	Synthetic Aperture Radar
dc.subject	Syria
dc.subject	Syria
dc.subject	Threat
dc.subject	Threat
dc.subject	Trapezophoros
dc.subject	Trapezophoros
dc.subject	Turkey
dc.subject	Turkey
dc.subject	UNESCO
dc.subject	UNESCO
dc.subject	Unidroit 1995 Convention
dc.subject	Unidroit 1995 Convention
dc.subject	United Kingdom
dc.subject	United Kingdom
dc.subject	Vandalism
dc.subject	Vandalism

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Stolen Heritage

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage in the EU and the MENA Region

edited by

Arianna Traviglia Centre for Cultural Heritage Technology-IIT

Lucio Milano Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Cristina Tonghini Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Riccardo Giovanelli Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

It is a well-known fact that organised crime has developed into an international network including very diverse actors – ranging from the simple ‘grave diggers’ to powerful and wealthy white-collar professionals – that adopt illegal practices like money laundering, fraud and forgery. This criminal system, ultimately, damages and disintegrates our cultural identity and, in some cases, fosters political corruption, terrorism or civil unrest through the transnational and illicit trafficking of cultural property. The forms of ‘ownership’ of Cultural Heritage are often indistinct, and – depending on the national legislation of reference – the proprietorship and trade of historical and artistic assets of value may be legitimate or not. Casual collectors and criminals have always taken advantage from these ambiguities and managed to place on the market items obtained by destruction and looting of museums, monuments and archaeological areas. Thus, over the years, even the most renowned museum institutions might have - more or less consciously – displayed, hosted or lent cultural objects of illicit origin. Ransacking, thefts, clandestine exports and disputable transactions are crimes that primarily affect countries that are rich in artistic and archaeological assets, but such activities do not involve just some countries. This is an international border-crossing phenomenon that starts in given countries and expands to many others. Some are briefly passed through while a handful of powerful and rich ones are the actual destination marketplaces. Drawing from the experience of the conference Stolen Heritage (Venice, December 2019), held in the framework of the H2020 NETCHER (NETwork and digital platform for Cultural Heritage Enhancing and Rebuilding) project, this edited volume focuses on illicit trafficking in cultural property addressing the issue from a multidisciplinary perspective and featuring papers authored by international experts and professionals actively involved in Cultural Heritage protection. The articles included expand on such diverse topics as the European legislation regulating import, export, trade and restitution of cultural objects; ‘conflict antiquities’ and cultural heritage at risk in the Near and Middle East; looting activities and illicit excavations in Italy; the use of technologies to counter looting practices and the publication of unprovenanced items. This collection is meant as a valuable resource to disseminate new results of the research as well as to facilitate a better understanding of the international legislation related to the protection of Cultural Heritage.

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March 31, 2021

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978-88-6969-518-6

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978-88-6969-517-9

Keywords

COSMO-SkyMed • Vandalism • Turkey • Brexit • Funerary portraits • United Kingdom • Syria • Threat • Gianfranco Becchina • Cyprus • Paul Getty • Antiquities trafficking • Giacomo Medici • Directive 2014/60/EU • UNESCO • Synthetic Aperture Radar • Conflict antiquities • Cross-media • Pattern recognition • Online journalism • Regulation (EU) 2019/880 • Illicit trade • Google Earth • Heritage • Reliefs • Preservation • Unidroit 1995 Convention • Change detection • European Association of Archaeologists • Iraq • Social media • Organised cultural property crime • Palmyra • German Cultural Property Act • Circulation of cultural goods • Feature extraction • Information • Art market • Archaeological remote sensing • Art-crime • Cultural property • Cultural heritage • Organised Crime • J • Protection of archaeological heritage • Resolution • Staatliche Museen Berlin • Satellites • Cut-off date • Louvre • Internal market • Looting • Narcotics trafficking • Apulian Vases • Organised crime • Trapezophoros • Sentinel-2 • Germany • Political violence

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