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archaeological
Archaeological Context
Archaeological Heritage
Archaeological Sites
artefact trafficking
Author_Kathryn Walker Tubb
Author_Neil Brodie
Category=NK
Chapter Iii
combating illegal antiquities trade
context
cultural
cultural property law
DCMS 2000a
Draft Convention
Draft UNESCO Convention
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heritage
heritage crime prevention
ILA Draft
Illicit Antiquities
Illicit Trade
international heritage policy
International Humanitarian Law
Kuntur Wasi
looting
Los Convention
Malian Antiquities
marine archaeology protection
material
museum ethics
portable
Salvage Law
site
Sport Divers
Tamil Nadu
Tomb Robber
trade
Treasure Salvors
UK Export
UK Origin
underwater
Underwater Cultural Heritage
UNESCO Convention
World War
Wreck Site
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- ISBN 9780415510776
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international 'antiquities' market. Objects are excavated without record, smuggled across borders and sold for exorbitant prices in the salesrooms of Europe and North America. In some countries this looting has now reached such a scale as to threaten the very survival of their archaeological and cultural heritage.
This volume highlights the deleterious effects of the trade on cultural heritage, but in particular it focuses upon questions of legal and local responses: How can people become involved in the preservation of their past and what, in economic terms, are the costs and benefits? Are international conventions or export restrictions effective in diminishing the volume of the trade and the scale of its associated destruction?
Neil Brodie is an Archaeologist who since 1988 has been Coordinator of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.
Kathryn Walker Tubb is an Archaeological Conservator and Lecturer at the Institue of Archaeology, University College London. She has co-organized a major international conference entitled 'Conservation and the AntiquitiesTrade' in 1993 for the UK Institute for Conservation Archaeology Section.
