On the Highway to Hell: Thoughts on the Unintended Consequences for Portable Antiquities of § 11(1) AustrianDenkmalschutzgesetz

Raimund Karl

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At first glance, Austrian laws for the protection of archaeological heritage appear to be almost perfect: licenses for archaeological fieldwork, including metal detector surveys, can only be awarded to archaeology graduates. Yet, this had unintended consequences: the number of finds reported by members of the public has declined dramatically. Also, conditions issued by the Bundesdenkmalamt on excavation licenses only affect archaeologists, who have no means to fulfil them, rather than owners of finds and documentation, who would have. Thus, the good intentions behind a theoretically perfect law turn out to be the pavement for a highway to archaeological heritage hell.

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