Last December I decided that we should give the Archaeological Institute of America a break. Our editor in chief, Hershel Shanks, had been taking the AIA’s current leadership to task for their fanatical, often inconsistent and largely ineffective policies dealing with the problem of archaeological looting. As I riffled through the schedule for the upcoming annual AIA conference in San Diego, I thought: “Hershel is right, but those who control the AIA today aren’t the AIA; it is in fact a greater, more distinguished and embracing institution.” The January 2001 conference, for example, would feature talks on Amazons, Cretan […]
