Looting (Other Keyword)

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New Evidence of Old Looting, 19th Century Looting of Tikal’s Carved Wooden Lintels. (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James W Meierhoff.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1879 the Guatemalan Secretary of Agriculture Salvador Valenzuela saw the damage at the ruins of Tikal caused by the removal of carved wooden lintels and observed that; “The beams of the doors of these towers… were pulled out by a foreign doctor [Gustave Bernoulli] the year before last, and that which time and nature could not...

New observations of looting at archaeological sites in southern Mesopotamia (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zaid Alrawi.

Archaeological sites in Iraq have suffered the consequences of unstable political conditions. Due to this volatile situation law enforcement has been inconsistent and allowed antiquities looters to vandalize southern Mesopotamian sites. This resulted in differential rates of damage among the country’s cultural heritage sites. By focusing on the ancient archaeological site of Girsu (modern-day Telloh) and its hinterland, I used Digital Globe imagery, remote sensing techniques and recent...

"…nothing else of great artifactual value" or "…found nothing on the site at all": What remains of an eighteenth century colonial shipwreck in Biscayne National Park? (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Price. Jennifer F McKinnon. Charles Lawson.

The title of this paper illuminates the short sided approach held by those in search of "treasure" in the 1960s and 1970s in south Florida. It also provides a window into the past and present about how the Pillar Dollar Wreck in Biscayne National Park has been, and continues to be, impacted by adventure seekers, treasure salvors and looters. This paper outlines recent archaeological excavations of the Pillar Dollar Wreck and reveals there is still much to be found and studied in the shifting...

The Object is the Thing: Developing a Framework for Understanding the Culture of Looting. (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Fernstrom.

Objects are central to looting. The illegally excavated object has a relationship to the past person who produced it; the landscape that held it; the person who clandestinely excavates it; and the people who sell and buy it. To date, in the United States, there are no systematic multi-State data assemblages that can be used to analyze the culture and behavior of looters. Studies of dealers and collectors examine object relationships after the looting has occurred. Understanding the connection...

A Perfect Pothunting Day - An Examination of Vandalism to the Cultural Resources of Canyon de Chelly National Monument (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Lavris Makovics.

It has been postulated that one-third to one-half of all known archaeological sites in the US Southwest have been vandalized; however there are few accurate and complete datasets available to prove this assumption, or to determine exactly which factors encourage illicit activity. In fact, in 1987 the Government Accounting Office identified this lack of data as a major reason for not fully comprehending the archeological vandalism problem on public lands in the United States. For over 20 years,...

Phase I Archeological Survey of the Nally & Hamilton Enterprises, Inc. Trace Fork #2 Coal Permit Area Perry and Leslie Counties, Kentucky (2000)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Betty J. McGraw.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Phase I Cultural Resources Survey and Phase II Archaeological Testing of the Proposed Bridge Replacement Along Road S-19 Over the Little River (2006)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alex Sweeney.

"... This survey was conducted on behalf of the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) in Columbia, South Carolina. These investigations were conducted in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) by personnel qualified under 36 CFR Part 61, and consistent with guidelines developed by the SCDAH. The goals of this investigation were to identify archaeological sites and architectural resources (e.g., standing structures) within and immediately...

Pictographs At Wall Rock Cave, Albany Co., Wyoming (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eugene Galloway. George A. Agogino.

Recent Examination of Vv35 (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas R. Hester.

A Reconnaissance of the Rockshelter Resources of Gunpowder Falls Watershed in Baltimore, Carroll, and Harford Counties, Maryland (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen S. Israel.

Report On Looting of the Kremlin Site (24HL401), Fresno Reservoir, Montana (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad A. Coutant.

Report To the President and the Congress of the United States: Twenty Years of the National Historic Preservation Act (1986)

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Representations of Looting and Bad Practices as Entertainment (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only L. Meghan Dennis.

Representations of archaeology in films and television have been historically problematic, frequently emphasizing bad practices, shoddy scholarship and ethically questionable professional behavior. In video games, however, there is an additional dimension of experience as the user in effect commits the acts actively instead of viewing them passively. By looking critically at the modern "adventure" game, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, examples of encouragement of looting, creating a false object...

Review of the Tennessee State Cemetery Law and Its Effect Upon Archaeological Data Recovery and Site Preservation (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael C. Moore.

Role for the Amateur Archeologist Allied in Decreasing Site Looting (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Elmendorf.

A Salty Surprise (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Merritt.

This is an abstract from the "Exploring the Recent Past" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In hopes of making Utah Territory seem more metropolitan and 'normal', the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints embarked on the construction of one of the most unique resorts in all of the United States. The Saltair Resort, opened in 1893, was located deep into the briny reaches of the Great Salt Lake. Advertised for both recreation (swimming, bathing,...

Shippe Canyon Site (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis C. Joyes.

SHPO: Analysis of Artifacts Looted from Kennedy Space Center, Florida (2013)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Blaylock.

SHPO Correspondence regarding the removal of artifacts (bottles) from an archaeological site on Kennedy Space Center.

Sites, Artifacts, and Digging On the Chignik River, Alaska. Letter To Chester Chard, March 15 (1961)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marvin L. Stenberg.

Six Bison Kill Sites In Phillips County, Montana (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judy Hoy.

"Spoiled Submerged Sites" or "Just Another C-Filter"? Accounting for Recent Human Impact in the Archaeological Analysis of BISC-2 (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dave Morgan. Stephen Lubkemann. Charles Lawson. David Conlin. Andres Diaz.

BISC-2 represents a type of site that is all too familiar to maritime archaeologists: one subject to extensive recent post-deposition disturbance as a result of different forms of destructive human intervention. Too often such sites are dismissed as too "spoiled" to provide reliable insight into the past. We suggest that while regrettable, such recent interventions should not lead us to dismiss such sites as archaeologically irrelevant. Instead they should be addressed through archaeological...

Surface and Subsurface Patterns of Archaeological Materials at Fort Fillmore, New Mexico (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Staski.

Survey of Ceramic Sites In Southeastern Wyoming. (Part 2 of 2, Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming (1971)) (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles A. Reher.

"The Thieves Who Stole 11 Mountain Howitzers … Were Tried in U.S. Court": The Story of the First Federal Cultural Resources Protection Law and the First Federal Prosecution of a Cultural Resources Crime. (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Eck.

As we prepare to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the NHPA, it is worth remembering that a nearly forgotten federal law established the first federal battlefield parks a mere 25 years after the end of the Civil War and placed federal authority and protection over cultural resources – the "Act to establish a National Military Park at the Battlefield of Chickamauga" of 1890 and the subsequent related statutes, such as the Military Parks Act of 1897. This paper explores this law, its early...

Tikal's Missing Carved Wooden Lintel (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Meierhoff.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1879, the Guatemalan Secretary of Agriculture Salvador Valenzuela saw the damage to the temples of Tikal by the removal of many of its carved wooden lintels, and observed that; “The beams of the doors of these towers, which form the lintels of the doors, were pulled out by a foreign doctor [Gustave Bernoulli] the year before last, and that which time...