Category Archives: subsistence digging
Long Overdue Thank You’s to Some CiP Followers
Lately I have made enthusiastic attempts to reach out the growing community of cultural heritage, museum, and archaeology bloggers, in hopes that they might find Culture in Peril a useful resource for the cross-fertilization of ideas. My belief is that … Continue reading
Long Overdue Thank You’s To Some CiP Followers
Lately I have made enthusiastic attempts to reach out the growing community of cultural heritage, museum, and archaeology bloggers, in hopes that they might find Culture in Peril a useful resource for the cross-fertilization of ideas. My belief is that … Continue reading
Drug Addiction Fuels Looting of Antiquities
An article in the March/April edition of Archaeology magazine, titled “Drugs, Guns and Dirt,” highlights the surprisingly intimate connection between drug addiction and the looting of archaeological sites in the American Southwest. According to the the article, federal law enforcement agents … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology, cultural property, drugs, heritage, looting, subsistence digging
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Subsistence Digging Is (Not) Looting?
I have found that the vast majority of fellow students in my master’s course tend to hold a defeatist attitude towards the illicit looting of cultural property—that is, it is inherently negative and harmful; it is “bad.” In cultural heritage … Continue reading
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