Give A Hoot, Don’t Loot: types of looting and recent examples

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Give A Hoot, Don’t Loot: types of looting and recent examples

Women In Archaeology

57 minutes 38 seconds

2 years ago

Give A Hoot, Don’t Loot: types of looting and recent examples

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/