Explore additional content related to Preservation Archaeology’s Role in Responding to Archaeological Resource Crimes, Stacy Ryan’s February 2, 2021, Archaeology Café Online presentation.
Read Archaeology Southwest Magazine (Vol. 15, No. 3), “Threats to the Past,” available as a free PDF download, here.

See also:
- What is Preservation Archaeology? Vol. 25, No. 4 and Vol. 26, No. 1 (Fall 2011/Winter 2012)
- Preserving Archaeological Landscapes. Vol. 19, No. 3 (Summer 2005)
- Article: The Theft of the Gods
- Blog Post: The Archaeology of Looting
- Blog Post: How You Can Help Protect Heritage Sites
- Blog Post: Indiana O’Brien and the Raiders of the Maze
- Blog Post: Connections to Place: An Interview with Todd Scissons
Free PDF downloads:
Bowman Balestrieri, Blythe Alison (2018)
Field Archaeologists as Eyewitnesses to Site Looting. Arts 7(3), 48
Dore, Christopher (2010)
Digging In: An In-depth Look at the Archaeological Resources Protection Act: The Archaeological Perspective. In Proceedings of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Fifty-Sixth Annual Institute, pp. 14B-1 – 14B-20. Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Westminster, Colorado.
McManamon, Francis P. (2000)
The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (ARPA). Reproduced from Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia, edited by Linda Ellis, Garland Publishing Co., New York and London, 2000.
McAllister, Martin E., and Francis P. McManamon (2007)
Technical Brief 20: Archeological Resource Damage Assessment: Legal Basis and Methods. NPS Archeology Program, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
Proulx, Blythe Bowman (2013)
Archaeological Site Looting in “Glocal” Perspective: Nature, Scope, and Frequency. American Journal of Archaeology 117(1):111–125.
Sanders, Mark Russell (2013)
Hearts and Minds: Collaborative Approaches to Archaeological Site Preservation. Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 572.
Further reading:
Hutt, Sherry, Elwood W. Jones, and Martin E. McAllister (1992)
Archeological Resource Protection. Preservation Press, National Trust for Historic Preservation. Washington, DC.
McAllister, Martin E. (1991)
Looting and Vandalism of Archaeological Resources on Federal and Indian Lands in the United States. In Protecting the Past, edited by George S. Smith and John E. Ehrenhard, pp. 93-99. CRC Press. Boca Raton, Florida.
Palmer, Robert (2007)
Federal Prosecutions under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979: A Ten-Year Review (1996-2005). In Yearbook of Cultural Property Law 2007, edited by Sherry Hutt and David Tarler, pp. 221-235. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. London and New York.
Welch, John R., Mark T. Altaha, Garry J. Cantley, William H. Doelle, Sarah A. Herr, Morag M. Kersel, Brandi L. MacDonald, Francis P. McManamon, Barbara Mills, Fred Nials, Mary Ownby, Michael Richards, Ramon Riley, Stacy L. Ryan, Duston Whiting, Donna Yates
2019 Conference Report, Hope in Dirt: Report of the Fort Apache Workshop on Forensic Sedimentology Applications to Cultural Property Crime, 15-19 October 2018. International Journal of Cultural Property 26:197-210.
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