"Artifacts", etc.

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Posted by Jim from archlab.anthro.uwm.edu on April 06, 1999 at 16:47:55:

Hi all,
Re: the links for "genuine and fake" artifacts on some pages...
While the films are most fun, the actual antiquities trade is anything but that. Selling real "pieces of history" only encourages more looting and the destruction of archaeological sites. I don't want to preach to those whom I assume are the converted, but it seems to me that web-links to "real-life" antiquities dealers on IJ pages cannot but mock archaeology and probably project a rather dismal image of the merits of IJ movies. Hope you find the following interesting and can forgive the length of post. Cheers.

There is a plethora of artifact-trading sites. Some have pages where
ethics and practices are sometimes debated:
http://www.arrowheads.com/
http://www.tribalarts.com/weboard/webboard.html
see also:
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=heath;list
for a listing of traders.

For the heritage-minded side of the looting/antiquities trade, see:
http://www.unesco.org/culture/legalprotection/theft/theft.htm
http://www.usia.gov/education/culprop/
http://193.123.144.14/interpol.com
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/Moche/looting.html
http://maya-archaeology.org/html/law.html
http://www.museum-security.org/
http://www.nitehawk.com/alleycat/artifact.html

A news item for a laugh:
http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et1095/et1095s11.html


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