First Person: Duke Professor Calls for Public Pressure Against BAR

Field archaeologist Eric Meyers of Duke University has called for public pressure to halt BAR’s publication of artifacts that surface on the antiquities market, known in scholarly parlance as unprovenanced objects. “It is time for people of good will everywhere to demand that magazines such as Biblical Archaeology Review not publish unprovenanced materials,” Meyers wrote in the January 6, 2005, edition of the Raleigh News and Observer. Meyers writes as if BAR goes into the shops of antiquities dealers and locates unprovenanced objects to write about. Let us be clear on what Professor Meyers is talking about: For him, […]