tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post6885583953961868176..comments2024-03-27T04:46:33.198-07:00Comments on Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Drugs, Guns and DirtPaul Barfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-82113028879314040092010-05-01T17:02:03.098-07:002010-05-01T17:02:03.098-07:00Yeah, looting for "subsistence" or raw p...Yeah, looting for "subsistence" or raw profit is still looting. What's sad is how grossly the middle-men might cheat or underpay local villagers after a site's been destroyed...all that destruction for nothing. Anyone who's worked in the SW US archaeological world (CRM or otherwise) will have by now heard of or seen evidence of vandals and twiggers. I have... And what's Arizona just done in response to enormous budget cuts? Closed numerous national parks with archaeological ruins on them, of course! "It's open season, boys..."Damien Hufferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01808464886332759165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8174756573570334952.post-39373351024927146642010-05-01T02:02:38.744-07:002010-05-01T02:02:38.744-07:00Nicholas Merkelson has posted a story based on thi...Nicholas Merkelson has posted a story based on this on his blog http://cultureinperil.blogspot.com/2010/04/addicts-fiend-for-meth-and-antiquities.html<br /><br />and refers readers to his earlier post "Subsistence Digging is (Not) Looting?," http://cultureinperil.blogspot.com/2010/02/subsistence-digging-is-not-looting.html "where I examine the practice of subsistence digging by impoverished peoples to supplement their meager farming income. One might say an even more disastrous and negative form of subsistence digging is practiced by twiggers!"<br /><br />The problem is that the original article was apologetic with regard those "subsistence diggers".Paul Barfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10443302899233809948noreply@blogger.com