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DOCUMENT Citation Only James Zeidler.

Northern Manabí Province of coastal Ecuador has long been a center of archaeological looting and illicit trade in antiquities derived from successive cultural occupations of the Formative Period Valdivia and Chorrera cultures and the long Jama-Coaque cultural tradition, a sequence spanning some 3,500 years. The ceramic artifacts from this trade are some of the most complex and elaborate found anywhere in Ecuador. They grace the shelves of national and regional museums, and numerous private...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter B. Campbell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of antiquities trafficking has a legnthy history, but engagement has significantly increased following the coverage of cultural heritage exploitation by Islamic State from 2006-2019. The resulting growth in the field – including criminologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, legal experts, law...