Who Owns the Past?

A Grassroots Critique of Heritage Policy

How do we decide what we should preserve from the past? More to the point, who should decide what we should preserve from the past, and how should we investigate it? Above all, who should pay for it?

This report, published by the Adam Smith Institute, in London, takes a grass-roots look at some of these questions and provides some thought-provoking answers.

It contains an Introduction and 5 chapters:

Introduction

1. The 'market' in archaeology

2. From amateur to professional: a history of modern archaeology

3. The supply side

4. Treasure Trove

5. Recommendations

This Page was last updated by Andrew Selkirk on 11th March 1998