An Unraveling Rope: The Looting of America's Past
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert J. Mallouf
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 2, Repatriation: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Spring, 1996, pp. 197-208
Description
Article describes the phenomenon of site-looting, or artefact collecting by amateur or hobbyist archeologists; discusses the motivations of the collectors and the effects for the scholarly archeological community.