In this account, Colin Renfrew illustrates how the most precious
product of archaeology is the information that controlled and
well-published excavations can give us about our shared human past.
Clandestine and unpublished digging of archaeological sites for
gain - ie looting - destroys the context and all hope of providing
such information. It is the source of most of the antiquities that
appear on the art market today - unprovenanced antiquities, the
product of illicit traffic financed, knowingly or not by the
collectors and museums that buy them on a no-questions-asked basis.
This trade has turned London as well as other international centres
into a 'thieves kitchen' where greed triumphs over serious
appreciation of the past. Unless a solution is found to this
ethical crisis in archaeology, our record of the past will be
vastly diminished. This book attempts to lay bare the
misunderstanding and hypocrisy that underlies that crisis.
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