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High-altitude mummy looting: the Cerro El Plomo child

Posted on 7 May 2014

The first high-altitude frozen mummy found in Chile was located and then hidden by looters

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‘God is dead and doesn’t watch’: Easter week tomb robbing on Peru’s north coast

Posted on 20 April 2014

Easter Week: the traditional time of grave robbing on Peru’s north coast.

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Relics for Sale at Tiwanaku [Bolivia, from La Razón]

Posted on 5 November 2012

My own (horribly flawed, terrible, I am sure) translation

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Images of historic looting

Posted on 26 October 2012

Emotional images of the looting of a Maya temple.

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“I am the old looter and I’ve come to loot pottery”

Posted on 4 July 2012

Last night I was working on a short definition of the term “huaquero”.

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