Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership: The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology (Debates in Archaeology)
By Colin Renfrew.
Description
Colin Renfrew argues that what is most precious in archaeology is the information that excavations can shed on our human past. Yet the clandestine and unpublished digging of archaeological sites for gain - looting - is destroying the context in which archaeological findings can be understood, as well as sabotaging the most valuable information. It is the source of most of the antiquities that appear on the art market today - unprovenanced antiquities, the product of illicit traffic financed, knowingly or not by the collectors and museums that buy them on a no-questions-asked basis. This tra...
ISBN(s)
0715630342, 9780715630341
