You betcha!!! That is absolutely correct!!! I have been involved in American archaeology (on and off-one way or another) for the past 48 years. I know the key question that is uppermost on your mind after reading those two definitions, so here it is:ĭo you mean to tell me that if I am a citizen of Tennessee, I call up my friend Ned Brooks, he gives me written permission to surface hunt or dig for artifacts at an archaeological site on his land-with me in 100 percent compliance with Tennessee cultural resources law and human burial laws-and I go surface hunting or digging at Ned’s place-you professional archaeologists officially define me as a looter? Once again, by definition, a looter is any artifact hunter who is not a qualified professional archaeologist-or is an ordinary person operating without training in field archaeology or operating outside of supervision by a professional archaeologist. The term looter is defined as any person who commits the act of looting for artifacts in a fieldwork context. The term looting refers to the act of removing one or more prehistoric or historic-era artifacts from their most recent archaeological context on the ground surface, beneath the ground surface, or underwater-by any person who is not a qualified professional archaeologist (or someone under their training or supervision)-for the purpose of owning the artifacts as private property-and selling the artifact(s), trading the artifact(s), or retaining ownership of the artifact(s) for personal recreation or material investment. Read on down, and all of this will be explained in great detail-and with a little illustrative comedy from The Three Stooges. Furthermore, these two terms have nothing to do with a person’s age, land ownership, or whether a person has given an artifact collector permission to hunt or dig for artifacts on their land. In fact, legality or illegality has absolutely nothing to do with the formal definitions of these two terms. How do you professional archaeologists define those two terms? My collector buddies tell me those two terms apply only to illegal surface hunting and illegal digging for artifacts on federal, state, or local government lands. 7: You professional archaeologists use the words “looting” and “looter” an awful lot these days.
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