期刊名称：SAA Archaeological Record, The : The magazine of the Society for American Archaeology
印刷版ISSN：1532-7299
出版年度：2006
卷号：6
期号：4
页码：5-5
出版社：Society for American Archaeology
摘要：The State Department will hold a very important hearing
that will go a long way toward determining whether vital
U.S. trade restrictions on certain categories of Peruvian
archaeological artifacts will continue.
The looting of archaeological sites is among the most serious
threats facing the world¡¯s cultural heritage. The cultural patrimony
of developing nations is in particular jeopardy, with much
of the looted material from those areas being sold on the international
market. In 1970, in response to the global trafficking of
illegally procured archaeological materials and the widespread
destruction of sites caused by the trade, UNESCO (United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
established the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and
Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership
of Cultural Property. The Convention was designed in part to
deter looting and trafficking of the cultural heritage of signatory
nations by stopping the international trade in illegally procured
archaeological and ethnographic materials.
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