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Some Thoughts on Amateur Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jane Holden Kelley
Jane Holden Kelley*
Affiliation:
Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Texas
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Abstract

Amateur collecting of archaeological specimens is not new, but the great increase in the number of collectors since 1945 introduces a new, quantitative element into the rate of destruction of archaeological resources. The sociological forces operating in our own culture to produce great numbers of amateurs have become a factor for professionals to reckon with in an effort to save valuable sites from complete destruction.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , January 1963 , pp. 394 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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