Looting and despoliation of archaeological sites represents a known crisis in many parts of the world, and it is widely acknowledged that whatever we know about the scale of site destruction, the reality is worse. Available evidence suggests the scale and severity of looting is increasing. Legal and ethical remedies exist but have not proven adequate to reduce the impact of looting and antiquities trafficking, both because of inadequate resources and uneven enforcement, and due to the pressures of rising prices for antiquities, growing market demand, severe economic depression and lawlessness, particularly in conflict zones, expanding ideological causes for site destruction, and competing epistemologies and deontological expectations challenging the site preservation imperative in archaeology. Ten years ago a previous review of these topics found the response inadequate; a decade later matters are worse. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology Volume 46 is October 21, ...

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掠夺，古物交易和过去的竞争估价

考古遗址的抢劫和剥夺是世界许多地方已知的危机，众所周知，无论我们对遗址破坏的规模如何，现实都更加糟糕。现有证据表明，抢劫的规模和严重性正在增加。存在法律和道德补救措施，但由于资源不足和执法不力，以及由于文物价格上涨，市场需求增长，严重的经济萧条和违法行为的压力，事实证明，法律和道德补救措施不足以减少掠夺和文物贩运的影响，特别是在冲突地区，不断扩大的造成遗址破坏的意识形态原因，以及相互竞争的认识论和道义学期望，对考古学中的遗址保护势在必行。十年前，对这些主题的先前评论发现回应不够充分；十年后，情况变得更糟。《人类学年度回顾》第46卷的预期最终在线发布日期是10月21日，...