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Donna Yates
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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...
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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
May 19, 2025 at 6:08 AM
A film that takes place where you’re from
April 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Frankly I'm surprised that I didn't know about this already. Also, this is not what I am supposed to be writing about this afternoon...
April 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I get a lot of emails asking me about opportunities in art crime/provenance/art law research. I can't send out individual emails , so I set up an email list! Once or twice a month I send out conference, job, publishing, or other opportunities. Sign up: www.anonymousswisscollector.com/opportunities
March 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Whose writing about Megalodon teeth markets? Me me ME! Who has Megalodon teeth strewn all around her desk? ME! Sociology, folks...
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"T. rex is Fierce, T. rex is Charismatic, T. rex is Litigious: Disruptive Objects in Affective Desirescapes" Check out our new FREE and open access paper. In it, our enthusiastic citation to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made it through academic peer review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
May 13, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Jobs, Events, and More: it's the Art Crime Research Opportunities List for 15 January. Extra long because it has been a while:

www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2024/01/art-...
January 25, 2024 at 10:39 AM
NEW FREE CASE STUDY! In 1986 an antiquities trafficker, who planned on buying weapons with the proceeds from sale Ecuadorian artefacts, was convicted of US customs violations after he was denounced by a confidential informant traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia...
November 30, 2023 at 8:55 AM
Wanna read how Shawn Graham and I used knowledge graphs and AI to find what *MIGHT BE* a multi-decade crime spree across museums and continents? It's FREE: "Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 23, 2023 at 12:26 PM
Art Crime Research Opportunities List (23 Nov)! Learning, networking, conferences and jobs in cultural property, art crime, provenance, & related research. Have a look: www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2023/11/art-...
November 23, 2023 at 12:13 PM
Lindemann Family Returns 33 Looted Artifacts to Cambodia
The family of George Lindemann, a collector and philanthropist, returned the statues after conceding that they had been looted, Cambodian officials said web.archive.org/web/20230913...
September 15, 2023 at 7:10 AM
Australia: ANU returns three ancient artefacts to Italy after Italian authorities connected them to the activities of a notorious dealer who was very active in the Italian illegal antiquities trade from the 1970s to the 1990s. canberraweekly.com.au/anu-returns-...
September 15, 2023 at 7:01 AM
Naranjo Stela 30: This stolen Maya sculpture was seized by US Authorities when the crate it was being smuggled in it broke open in the port of Houston. NEW CASE STUDY on the Trafficking Culture site: traffickingculture.org/encyclopedia...
September 13, 2023 at 12:52 PM