Bravo!

Posted by Don from cras73p8.navix.net on July 17, 2000 at 09:13:37:

In Reply to: Maybe something can be done about it... posted by Inbanana Jones on July 16, 2000 at 20:19:53:

Bravo Old Bean! I couldn't agree more! Ebay and the like traffic in some interesting cultural treasures of dubious origin. Here in Nebraska we had a problem a few years back with professional paleontological collecting teams stealing fossils from our national state parks. They were funded by some Japanese collectors and had hydraulic lifters capable of removing huge pieces of rock that contained large turtle fossils and the like. I have no beef with minimal surface collecting as long as records are kept. An arrowhead or a fossil here and there is all right. When it gets to pots and other artefacts, that is where it gets unacceptable. I sahre your passion for the past. I am trying to use my passion to convince the Rhodes Scholarship people to give me their award and let me study archaeology at Oxford. In a day and age when everyone is looking forward, a few need to look back.

Regards,

Don

Follow Ups:

• This is gonna really piss some of you folks off, but here goes... Steve 00:13:23 7/18/2000 (2)
  • I'm afraid you are misunderstanding this, Steve Michaelson 12:42:15 7/18/2000 (1)
    • OOps, I was afraid I was off track...thanks, and I do agree with the gist of this discussion(nm) Steve 13:08:58 7/18/2000 (0)

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