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Post : #looting, the subsistence digging economy in #Mali; and stemming the flow of looted #antiquities from Mali to the #USA
URL : http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/mali-looting-export-usa-import/
Posted : April 3, 2012 at 11:30 pm
Author : samarkeolog
Tags : Mali, USA
Categories : archaeology, illicit antiquities trade, looting

I'd been planning on blogging about looting in Mali later, but Donna ( https://twitter.com/#!/grotesqueidols ) Yates ( http://anonymousswisscollector.blogspot.co.uk/ ) asked ( http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/africa-illicit-antiquities-trade-problems-solutions/#comment-335 ) if I was going to comment on the U.S. State Department's Cultural Property Advisory Committee's call for comments ( http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DOS-2012-0012-0001 ) on its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Mali. So, here is a summary of the looting crisis in Mali, and the role of the antiquities market in the U.S. (and elsewhere); here is my comment on the USA-Mali MOU.
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