This has been a quite revealing discussion.
For example, Nicholas Gessler on Thu
Jun 10 21:18:25 EDT 2004 stated:
Don't we have better things to worry about than
whether Libya is going to spend $100s or $1000s
to repatriate EACH chip, flake or blade of Libyan
Desert Glass? at:
In a similar
Dear List,
I couldn't not chime in, so suppose there are any hungry people in
Africa that would rather have a nice thick juicy sandwich or a bowl of
rice soup over a chip of desert glass that some call artifactual?
I am sure wives have been purchased with the proceeds from
Keith,
Don't be so quick to twist what I and others said to fill your needs.
It is also naive not to know the difference between de facto and de jur.
That is all that most of the people posting were pointing out.
De jur does not necessarily guarantee the conservation of
anything. There are many
Nick wrote
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As for your argument, and your condensation
of what I and others have said, it is your logic
that is bankrupt not their postings. Picking an
LDG flake up off the shifting sandy desert floor,
where it might not otherwise be seen again is
not like stealing a
Keith,
You seem to like to shift attention by misquoting.
I made no claims about what is legal and what is not legal.
I did make a claim that there is a higher authority than some legislation.
That higher authority comes from people who make workable laws for the
greater good, the conservation of
Despite what you have stated, he and other
professional archaeologists have made it very clear,
contrary to you have claimed, me that even picking
an LDG flake up off the shifting sandy desert floor
and transporting it / exporting it without permission
from either Egypt or Libya is unethical
Keith, you are deliberatly misrepresenting what you
wrote to that archaelogists and then deliberately
misrepresenting what you are reporting back to this
list. You are asking the archaelogists if artifacts
made from LDG is illegal (Of course it is) and then
you show him this auction by Mark
Keith, you are deliberatly misrepresenting what you
wrote to that archaelogists and then deliberately
misrepresenting what you are reporting back to this
list. You are asking the archaelogists if artifacts
made from LDG is illegal (Of course it is) and then
you show him this auction by Mark
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