![]() That would be a book worth reading.Ĭhilds is on the periphery of understanding. But I was thinking this would at least be a rational look at the underbelly of antiquities and the thrill and obsession that often accompanies it. In retrospect there was probably no way that I, a formally trained archaeologist, archaeological conservator, and museologist, would like this book. What we do now forever changes the context of artifacts." What one person takes often destroys it for another, a big gamble when we are here for such a short time, one thin layer of generations atop thousands of years of ancestry. ![]() "Why so much contention? We are dealing with the physical remains of human history. ![]() Fingers seem to all be pointing at each other." Museum curators have called it looting when repatriation laws require them to turn over prized pieces of antiquity to faraway countries demanding their heritage back. There are scientists who say it is looting when artifacts come without paperwork. There are night diggers pillaging tombs and rioters with bats and crowbars pouring through the unhinged doors of the National Museum in Iraq. ![]() To loot is to freely take something that is not yours. ![]() It is a firsthand exploration into the many reasons we loot. "This book is about the underbelly of archaeology, from both a personal and a global perspective. I had high hopes for this book about archaeology, but I found it to be muddled and poorly written, and I quickly lost interest. ![]()
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