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Annual Review of Anthropology

Volume 47, 2018

Looting, the Antiquities Trade, and Competing Valuations of the Past

Abstract

Looting and spoliation of archaeological sites represent a known crisis in many parts of the world, and it is widely acknowledged that despite what we know about the scale of site destruction, the reality is worse. Available evidence suggests that the scale and severity of looting are increasing. Legal and ethical remedies exist but have not proven adequate to reduce the impact of looting and antiquities trafficking. This reflects, in part, inadequate resources and uneven enforcement, and also the pressures of rising prices for antiquities, growing market demand, severe economic depression, and lawlessness, particularly in conflict zones. But it also reflects expanding ideological causes for site destruction by others, as well as competing epistemologies and deontological expectations within the discipline itself challenging the site preservation imperative in archaeology. More than ten years ago, a previous review of these topics found the response inadequate; a decade later, matters are worse.

Keyword(s): antiquities trafficking, deontology, illicit objects, looting, spoliation, undocumented antiquities
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Looting, the Antiquities Trade, and Competing Valuations of the Past
Annual Review of Anthropology 47, 455 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102116-041320
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