Give A Hoot, Don’t Loot: types of looting and recent examples
Update: 2023-08-30
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On this episode, hosts Chelsi Slotten and Emily Long explore the different types and reasons why people loot archaeological sites, both in the past and present. They also discuss recent examples of looting (i.e. WWII shipwrecks) and issues of repatriating looted artifacts.
Ship looting in the Java Sea- https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2017/nov/03/worlds-biggest-grave-robbery-asias-disappearing-ww2-shipwrecks?fbclid=IwAR0d1QIYByhdeV7vHTbeqECE4DSODiq5SB5iYZECy5_NIO2da-oguxkOJrY
Ship looting in Malaysan economic zone- https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/30/asia/malaysia-world-war-ii-shipwreck-looting-intl-hnk/index.html?fbclid=IwAR09M2S9_dKZOpt2D2ESrqnjhn4wGTpP0dh-vETyjCeKh-ABNZWyioXZTpE
Oseberg and Gokstad looting-
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/plundering-of-the-ship-graves-from-oseberg-and-gokstad-an-example-of-power-politics/A5578C1722C9D0B0D837B780BA93DB97
Contested Objects at BM- https://www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/british-museum-story/contested-objects-collection
Looted objects at the Met- https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/mar/20/new-york-metropolitan-museum-collection-artifacts-theft
BM act- https://www.britishmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/British-Museum-Act-1963.pdf
Donna Yates episode link- https://womeninarchaeology.com/2021/04/04/confronting-illegal-trafficking-in-archaeology-with-dr-donna-yates-repost/
Destruction of Archaeology as a war crime episode- https://womeninarchaeology.com/2020/01/07/war-crimes-destruction-of-archaeology-as-a-war-crime/
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