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DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Mackenzie.

The illicit trade in looted cultural property has been observed to be an example of a ‘transnational criminal market’. Other examples of transnational criminal markets are given in the non-exhaustive list in the title. These markets function in respect of a variety of goods – some are ‘collectibles’ markets (eg. antiquities; wildlife), some trade ‘consumables’ (eg. drugs; diamonds; counterfeit/pirated goods), while others move non-consumer goods that are not collectibles (eg. guns; radiological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Halling. Ryan Seidemann.

This is an abstract from the "Human Remains in the Marketplace and Beyond: Myths and Realities of Monitoring, Grappling With, and Anthropologizing the Illicit Trade in a Post-Harvard World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Louisiana Department of Justice (LDOJ) has routinely monitored online sites for trafficking of human remains and antiquities since 2007. Since that time, new state laws have been enacted to strengthen the ability to confiscate...