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Online Social Organisation of Artefact-Hunting in Former Yugoslavia SPECIAL It Is Not against the Law, if COLLECTION: No-One Can See You: Online FIGHTING ILLICIT TRADE Social Organisation of IN ANTIQUITIES WITH DIGITAL Artefact-Hunting in Former TECHNOLOGY Yugoslavia RESEARCH ARTICLE SAMUEL ANDREW HARDY ABSTRACT CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Dr. Samuel Andrew Hardy This study uses open-source intelligence to analyse the illicit excavation and illicit Heritage Experience Initiative, trafficking of archaeological goods (and forgeries) across the Balkan-Eastern Norwegian Institute in Rome, Mediterranean region(s) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, University of Oslo, NO North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. It draws on texts and images that have been [email protected] published by hundreds of artefact-hunters across tens of online communities and other online platforms. These include online forums; social networks, such as Facebook and Instagram; social media, such as Pinterest and YouTube; generic trading platforms, KEYWORDS: such as eBay, Etsy and olx.ba; and specialist trading platforms, such as VCoins. antiquities looting; illicit trafficking of cultural goods; It shows how artefact-hunters target sites, features and objects; reveal the objects that online trafficking; social are collectible and/or marketable; acquire equipment; form patron-client relationships, network analysis; South- peer-to-peer partnerships and other cooperative groups; engage in transnational Eastern Europe activity; crowdsource techniques for smuggling; crowdsource ways to avoid being caught or punished; and respond to policing. Often, they give identifying details or leave TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: an electronic paper trail that enables their identification. Such information also reveals Hardy, SA. 2021. It Is Not the destructiveness of processes of extraction and consumption; the economics of against the Law, if No-One the low-end market in cultural goods from poor countries; the gender dimension in Can See You: Online Social Organisation of Artefact- cultural property crime and cyber-enabled crime; and the interaction between political Hunting in Former Yugoslavia. allegiance and criminal activity. Thereby, this study shows how netnography and social Journal of Computer network analysis can support intelligence-led policing. Applications in Archaeology, 4(1), 169–187. DOI: https://doi. org/10.5334/jcaa.76 Hardy Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology DOI: 10.5334/jcaa.76 170 1. INTRODUCTION 74–75). Furthermore, there is evidence of participation of foreign fighters from former Yugoslavia in pillaging and As elsewhere in the Balkan-Eastern Mediterranean trafficking of cultural goods during the war in Ukraine region(s) (Novinite 2008; Hardy 2020b), so in former (Chraibi 2020). Yugoslavia, archaeologists are threatened by looters and Yet, despite the evidence of interactions of trafficking there have been ‘physical clashes’ between looters and of art and antiquities with trafficking of drugs and arms, archaeologists (according to Filipović and Vasić 2017: criminal violence, organised crime and political violence, 336). At least since the 1990s, some organised looting as well as the undermining of the rule of law through has been undertaken with ‘naoružanim obezbeđenjem corruption and impunity, there has still been ‘jako malo [armed security]’ (according to archaeologist Miomir istraživanja [very little [empirical] research]’ (Korać and Korać, cited by Informer 2017). Amidžić 2014: 134). This study draws on informative Likewise, as elsewhere in the region (Hardy 2021b), publications of texts and images by hundreds of ‘organizirane skupine [organised [crime] groups]’ (Sedej artefact-hunters across tens of online communities for 1977: 133), who also handle drugs and arms (according artefact-hunters, as well as tens of online communities to Živković and Todović 1995, paraphrased by Radović, for other communities and wider society, in order Samardžić and Đurđević 2016: 52), have been involved in to analyse the illicit trade across the Balkan-Eastern cultural property crime in former Yugoslavia for decades. Mediterranean region(s) of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Their involvement has increased, as other countries Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia have increased regulation of the supply chain (Sedej and Slovenia. 1977: 134), while the region has endured war, economic underdevelopment, the ‘tranzicije [transition]’ towards democracy and the ‘globalizacije [globalisation]’ of the 2. LAW economy (Korać and Amidžić 2014: 134). Police officers are notorious as collectors of antiquities As in the flanking regions of Eastern Europe (Hardy 2016) and protectors of ‘nedodirljivi [untouchable]’ dealers and the Eastern Mediterranean (Hardy 2020b), so in and looters (according to archaeologist Milan Pindić, former Yugoslavia, foundational laws, significant reforms, quoted and paraphrased by Ćirić et al 2005; according the technicalities of laws and the idiosyncracies of their to a Serbian cultural heritage worker, 3rd December implementation range across the region. Nonetheless, 2019). Indeed, international police officers in Kosovo the letter as well as the spirit of the law has been similar (as reported by Lama 2005) and peacekeepers in North and clear across the region since 1948 at the latest Macedonia (as reported by Deliso 2005b) have engaged (Miškec 2011: 12n2). in looting yet escaped punishment. Archaeological objects are public property or state Meanwhile, politicians, politically-exposed persons property and unlicensed excavation is prohibited and other members of the political/business elite are (Assembly of Montenegro 2010: 37; Federation of Bosnia notorious for assembling private collections of looted and Herzegovina 2003: Art. 322; Republic of Croatia antiquities, to launder dirty assets and to accumulate 1999: Art. 47; Republic of Kosova 2006: Art. Art. 7.9; social capital (e.g. in North Macedonia, according to Republic of North Macedonia 2004: Art. 10; Republic of cultural property police inspector Dragi Nestorovski, cited Serbia 1994: Ch. 11, Art. 134; Republic of Slovenia 2008: by Tochi 2013; in Serbia, according to art historian Renata Art. 32). Indeed, North Macedonia is cited as a model of Samardžić 2007), and for protecting their criminal supply ‘[a]bsolute [legislative] prohibition’ (UNESCO 2016: 2). chains (according to a Serbian cultural heritage worker, Regardless of the wording of any legislation, the law 26th July 2018). Macedonian artefact-hunter MKAH002 is understood by law-breakers across the region. Indeed, named a former senior nationalist politician who has it is the understanding of the law that enables bending been convicted of corruption, a former senior socialist of the law – to breaking point – by artefact-hunters and politician and a former senior archaeologist as influential antiquities-traders. participants in the illicit trade, as well as listing elements within NATO forces, a nationalist network within the police, senior police officers, priests and muftis as major 3. METHODS players in the looting process. Moreover, there is evidence of participation of Following a series of analyses of open-source research members or former members of armed forces and methodology (Hardy 2017b; Hardy 2018) and open- paramilitary organisations in theft and looting and source evidence for cultural property crime in Western members or former members of security agencies and Europe (Hardy 2017a), Eastern Europe (Hardy 2016), political parties in trafficking of cultural goods during South Asia (Hardy 2019b), South-East Asia (Hardy 2020a) and after the wars in former Yugoslavia (Deliso 2005a; and East Asia (Hardy 2019a), this study sought to amass Drnić 2016; Maniscalco 2006: 37–39; Walasek et al 2015: data that related to South-Eastern Europe, specifically Hardy Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology DOI: 10.5334/jcaa.76 171 former Yugoslavia. Adapting sets of queries that had among the first 100 results on eBay.co.uk, eBay.com and been refined through those analyses, using terms that Google Shopping from searches for: were drawn from the activity and its participants, this study sought to answer a range of questions that would • metal+detector+find+territory in English inform academic understanding and intelligence-led policing. Furthermore, it reviewed relevant sources among all These questions included: how do artefact-hunters results on eBay.co.uk and eBay.com from advanced acquire equipment, target sites, features and objects, searches for: and engage in transnational activity? How do artefact- hunters avoid being caught in the act of stealing and/ • metal+detector+find, located in territory, in English or smuggling, or being punished when caught? How do artefact-hunters and associated criminals form groups This study draws on specific texts and images from 243 and networks that specialise in one stage of the process artefact-hunters within the region and 41 artefact- or span the supply chain from source to market? Which hunters outside the region, plus content and statistics objects are perceived as collectible for artefact-hunters from 84 artefact-hunting online communities within and/or marketable to other collectors? How does the the region, as well as generic intelligence from an even online trade in cultural goods function? How does the wider range of sources. Artefact-hunters (Table 1) and low-end market in cultural goods function? Is it possible online communities for artefact-hunters (Table 2) were to identify demographic trends among cultural property
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