Greek vases for sale: some statistical evidence / Vinnie Nørskov -- Walking a fine line: promoting the past without selling it / Paula Lazrus -- The concept of cultural protection in times of armed conflict: from the crusades to the new millennium / Patrick J. Boylan -- Law and the underwater cultural heritage: a question of balancing interests / Sarah Dromgoole -- Negotiating the future of the underwater cultural heritage / Patrick J. O'Keefe -- Perceptions of marine artefact conservation and their relationship to destruction and theft / Amanda Sutherland -- Metal detecting in Britain: catastrophe or compromise? / Peter V. Addyman and Neil Brodie -- Britannia waives the rules? The licensing of archaeological material for export from the UK / Neil Brodie -- Mexico's archaeological heritage: a convergence and confrontation of interests / Enrique Nalda -- What's going on around the corner? Illegal trade of art and antiquities in Argentina / Daniel Schávelzon -- Looting graves/buying and selling artefacts: facing reality in the US / Hester A. David -- Reducing incentives for illicit trade in antiquities: the US implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention / Susan Keech McIntosh -- The rape of Mali's only resource / Térb́a Togola -- Dealing with the dealers and tomb robbers: the realities of the archaeology of the Ghor es-Safi in Jordan / Konstantinos D. Politis -- Plunder of cultural and art treasures-- the Indian experience / S.K. Pachauri -- Point, counterpoint / Kathryn Walker Tubb
Summary
This volume highlights the deleterious effects of the trade in cultural heritage, but in particular it focuses upon questions of legal and local responses to the exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain
Notes
Papers given at a session of the WAC4 held in Cape Town, South Africa
