Abstract

Bruce E. Rippeteau
Antiquities Enforcement in Colorado
Journal of Field Archaeology 6 (1979) 85--103

In this article the author discusses: (1) the Anthropology of Antiquities Enforcement with specific attention to classes of antiquities destroyers, to the attitudes of various private, public, and government sectors, to the nature of markets, and to the resistance to antiquities depredations, (2) the Law as the ruler of destroyer-resister interaction, (3) Case Studies of antiquities violations prosecution in and adjacent to Colorado, (4) Programmatic efforts among Private, State, and Federal agencies and museums concerning public education, site data accessibility, appraisals, law, security, and (5) more General Observations on the obsessions of tactical and strageic antiquities enforcement. Evidence presented here shows that antiquities depredations in Colorado are serious, that enforcement of law is difficult but not impossible or unrewarding, and the author also suggests the (6) Future of Antiquities Enforcement.

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