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In today’s market, a surge of counterfeit pre-Columbian artifacts, from fanciful to absurd, dominates global auctions and online platforms. Savvy sellers and specific eBay dealers strategically target collectors, presenting supposedly authentic pieces at meager prices and brushing off concerns about obvious fakery with vague references to differing opinions. This influx of counterfeit artifacts, appealing to bargain-seeking collectors, raises significant concerns about authenticity. Whether it’s a jade Olmec figure, Maya stone, Chimú pottery, or other items, buyers may, unfortunately, discover that their acquisitions lack genuine historical value when it’s time to sell.
Many professionals have now determined that eBay facilitates and sells about 95% fake pieces of antiquity. – Buyer beware.
Forging Ahead – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love eBay – Archaeology Magazine Archive
Faking pre-Columbian artifacts. Catherine Sease – AIC
Problems with American Indian Artifacts. Col. John F. Berner – Ruby Lane Real or Repro
Introducing the Fremont (ASW 29-4) – Archaeology Southwest
Dating BCS Rock Art at the Great Gallery, Canyonlands, Utah. Alan Watchman – Academia
Archaeological Fingerprinting and Fremont Figurines. Bonnie L. Pitblado – Academia
The haunting rock art of Sego Canyon – extra-terrestrials or spiritual visions? – Ancient-Origins
Foundation For The Advancement Of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. – FAMSI
Zapotec Funerary Urns from Mexico. J. Alden Mason – Penn Museum
a TECHNOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE PAINTED SURFACES OF ZAPOTEC URNS
FROM XOXOCOTLAN – AIC
Real Fake. The Story of a Zapotec Urn. Adam T. Sellen – Academia
It’s All In The Stones: Identifying Early Formative Period Transition
Through the incised Stone Figurines of Valdivia, Ecuador.
David Blower – National Library of Canada
An Archaeometric Characterization of Ecuadorian Pottery
Alejandra Sánchez-Polo, S. Briceño – Springer Nature
Peruvian Featherworks – Met Museum
Personal Effects: Elite Wari Woman in their Attire. Patrycja Przadka-Giersz – Academia
Andean Past 12 2016. Monica Barnes – Academia
Networks of Violence: Bioarchaeological and Spatial Perspectives on Physical, Structural, and Cultural Violence in the Lower Majes Valley, Arequipa, Peru in the Pre- and Early-Wari Eras. Beth Koontz Scaffidi – Academia
Bodies of Evidence: Mortuary Archaeology and the Wari–Tiwanaku Paradox. Antti Korpisaari – Academia
Burial in the Wari and the Tiwanaku Heartlands: Similarities, Differences, and Meanings. Antti Korpisaari – Academia
Wari Inlaid and Metal Ornaments. Susan Bergh – Academia
Pilgrim Flask with Personage on Raft. Milosz Giersz – Academia
Keros con decoración en relieve. Milosz Giersz – Academia
The Wari Phenomenon: In the Tracks of a Pre-Hispanic Empire. Milosz Giersz – Academia
Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes. Susan Bergh – Academia
Wari Wood Containers and Cups. Susan Bergh – Academia
Imperial Elites and the Symbols of Power (Castillo de Huarmey. El mausoleo imperial Wari)
Krzysztof Makowski – Academia
The Shape of things to come: the genesis of Wari Wak’as. Anita Cook – Academia
Formal and temporal variability in Ayacucho Early Intermediate Period and Middle Horizon funerary practices A view from the site of Ñawinpukyo. Juan Bautista Leoni – Academia
Seventy-three intact burials with carved masks discovered at Pachacámac – Archeowiesci.p
A carved Bone. By Marina L. Sardi – Scicomove
Chavin and the Origins of Andean Civilization. Richard Burger – Academia
Terracotta Figurines from the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacán,
México. Janet Montoya – FAMSI