Four distinguished speakers take an illuminating look at how these may be defined and how museums and others verify the authenticity of objects.
Prof Tom Higham, Deputy Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford
Identifying fakes and frauds using accelerator radiocarbon dating
Alison Petch, Registrar, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Spirited Enquiry: Pitt-Rivers, Tylor, and the Séance
Prof Roy Ellen, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent
Neither hoaxes nor frauds: eoliths as a problem in cultural cognition
Sir Mark Jones, Master of St Cross College, Oxford 2011- Director of Victoria & Albert Museum 2001-11
Why have Fakes become Crimes?
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