Export deregulation and the illicit trade in archaeological material

Brodie, N. (2004), ‘Export deregulation and the illicit trade in archaeological material’, in J. Richman and M. Forsyth (eds), Legal Perspectives on Cultural Resources (Walnut Creek: AltaMira), 85–99.

This chapter critiques the proposition that the looting of archaeological sites would diminish if countries with a rich but vulnerable archaeological heritage (the so-called source countries) would relax their export controls and allow a legal flow of archaeological material onto the international market.