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：2007
卷号：7
期号：4
页码：8-8
出版社：Society for American Archaeology
摘要：The antiquities trade has long threatened archaeological
sites and the critical information they contain about
humanity¡¯s past. The roots of the problem are deep and
complex, mired at least partly in the extreme poverty of the looters,
who are often the direct descendants of the people who
made the ancient artifacts now traded on the world market.
Only in the twentieth century did such trade become illicit;
although some nations such as Peru passed legislation prohibiting
the export of their antiquities in the first half of that
century, international agreements are even more recent. It has
been only 37 years since the UNESCO Convention on the
Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export,
and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, and twentyfour
years since the U.S. began formal participation in the Convention
with the passage of the Cultural Property Implementation
Act. The latter allows the U.S., as part of bilateral agreements
with nations experiencing looting, to impose import
restrictions on specific categories of materials from those lands.
The agreements must be reviewed for effectiveness, and
renewed periodically.
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