Donna Yates
I'm an archaeologist, a criminologist, and an unqualified dinosaur lawyer. I study passion and deviance related to fossils & antiquities, art crime, heritage, and culture from the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University. Arty stuff and related curiosities.
- Read all of antiquities dealer Michel van Rijn’s odd and amazing early blog online here. It is spectacular. #artcrime #archaeology www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/11/read...
- Through the narratives of violence and control in auction sales of Pacific cultural objects, I consider consumer desire: "Marketing, Narratives, and Consumer Desire within Auction Catalogs of Cultural Objects" out now, Open Access, in Advances in Archaeological Practice. doi.org/10.1017/aap....
- Colleagues at Maastricht University. I'm running for University Council. I would truly appreciate your vote. Take a moment and vote here: elections.maastrichtuniversity.nl and if you would like to see the platform I'm running on, here: leadmaastricht.nl
- A film that takes place where you’re from
- Holy heck, and this is being used to sell luxury handbags? This is very my research times a million.
- Well I've just submitted my application to create a new UNESCO chair in Global Heritage and Emerging Crime. Let's see what they think!
- Reposted by Donna YatesI’m looking to hire a postdoc (100%, 22 months, salary significantly above the standard postdoc in Austria or Germany). The position is set to begin on 1 June 2025. The project explores how biases in the fossil record affect our ability to use past biodiversity data for modern conservation. 1/3
- Today, I'm on strike.
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- People interested in antiquities trafficking research, take a moment to read "In Want of Methodological Rigor: A Critique of Suber et al. (2022)" by Michelle Fabiani and @dremilinesmith.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Belfast: Two men charged after 'high value piece of art' stolen
- Sigh. I have a photograph that I took of that door in 2007 behind me in my office right now. A small but painful loss.
- Roban piezas históricas de iglesia de San Agustín en Quito y la comunidad reacciona
- I've spent a lot of time on Leonardo Patterson and have published no less than 4 academic journal papers that involve him. I suppose I always thought I'd meet him. I'll share the papers here (all open access). They barely scratch the surface of this man's remarkable life in the illicit antiquities.
- If anyone here has access to a PDF of this article, I'd love a copy. The amount of my life that I've spent on Patterson's life is no small amount. It would be interesting to see what the times said about him.
- Leonardo Patterson, 82, High-Flying Antiquities Dealer Brought Low, Dies
- Shakespeare First Folio back on show 27 years after it was stolen
- Cyprus Customs returns stolen ancient coins to Department of Antiquities
- MPF repatria fósseis de 100 mi de anos levados ilegalmente do país
- After 120 Years Stored in a Museum, an Indigenous Shrine Returns Home
- PhD candidate Marie Kolbenstetter helps repatriate Honduran heritage
- Mystery Surrounds Artefacts Allegedly Stolen from Old Goa Excavation Site Amidst Police Investigation into Activists
- Art Institute Of Chicago Returned A Sculpture To Nepal But Obscured Its Connection To A Wealthy Donor
- Cambodia reclaims two looted artefacts www.khmertimeskh.com/501661215/ca...
- New images reveal extent of looting at Sudan’s national museum as rooms stripped of treasures
- Does anyone know of a heritage, tourism, museum, memory studies journal that publishes short reflexive pieces? Notes from the field? One of my PhDs wrote a compelling reflection on fieldwork at Chinese dark heritage/genocide memorial sites (~3000 words). I would love to see it published somewhere.
- ‘We are crying’: heritage authorities express sorrow after Sudan National Museum looted and ransacked
- Art crime, art law and provenance research opportunities for 3 April! www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2025/04/art-... Don't forget to sign up to get the (monthly) list in your email: www.anonymousswisscollector.com/opportunities
- Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family
