Papers presented at a symposium held Oct. 1999 in Cambridge, England. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreward / Colin Renfrew -- Illicit antiquities / Neil Brodie & Jennifer Doole -- The destruction of cultural heritage in Thailand and Cambodia / Rachanie Thosarat -- Illicit excavation in Contemporary China / He Shuzhong -- Recording and preserving Gandhara's cultural heritage / Ihsan Ali & Robin Coningham -- The threat to cultural sites in India from illegal excavation / Ajai Shankar -- Examples from Kenya and Somalia / George H.O. Abungu -- Destruction of archaeological heritage in Tanzania: the cost of ignorance / Bertram B.B. Mapunda -- The republic of Niger / BoubeĢ Gado -- Looting and the market for Maya objects: a Belizean perspective / Elizabeth Gilgan -- The destruction, looting and traffic of the archaeological heritage of Peru / Walter Alva -- Protecting the past for the future: federal archaeology in the United States / Veletta Canouts & Francis P. McManamon -- The new Syrian law on antiquities / Ammar Abdulrahman -- One damn illicit excavation after another: the destruction of the archaeological heritage of Jordan / Ghazi Bisheh -- Some remarks on the destruction of Turkey's archaeological heritage / Engin Ozgen -- American litigation to recover cultural property: obstacles, options and a proposal / Howard N. Spiegler & Lawrence M. Kaye -- The destruction of the archaeological heritage of Cyprus / Sophocles Hadjisavvas -- Antiquities without archaeology in the United Kingdom / Peter Addyman -- Analysis of the looting, selling and collecting of Apulian red-figure vases: a quantitative approach / Ricardo J. Elia -- The looting of archaeological sites in Italy / Giovanni Pastore -- Altering information from the past: illegal excavations in Greece and the case of the early Bronze Age Cyclades / Marisa Marthari --Appendix: The Cambridge Resolution.
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