Malta convention: an evaluation
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 2018-08-19

Indisputably, the Malta or Valetta Convention was quite important to promote preventive archaeology in Europe. Nevertheless, this convention is not so precise, that it could be restrictive on the various kind of organisations of archaeology all over Europe. In some countries, like in France, commercial excavations had negative results on the quality of scientific researches. But more important, in most of parts of the world, archaeological heritage is not really protected. A new UNO convention could be one of the possible solution.

Author: Professor Demoule, Jean-Paul - Université de Paris I Sorbonne (Presenting author)