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  • The illicit trade in antiquities is not the world's third-largest illicit trade: a critical evaluation of a factoid

  • Donna Yates, Neil Brodie
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 97 / Issue 394 / August 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 June 2023, pp. 991-1003
    Print publication:
    August 2023
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  • The claim that the illicit trade in antiquities is the third largest, second only to arms and narcotics, is widely repeated. But where does this claim originate and what is the evidence for its veracity? The authors present a ‘stratigraphic excavation’ of the claim by systematically searching through academic articles, popular press and policy literature to reveal the factoid's use and reuse over the past five decades. The authors find that the claim is not based on any original research or statistics, and it does not originate with any competent authorities. The analysis demonstrates how the uncritical repetition of unsubstantiated ‘facts’ can undermine legitimate efforts to prevent looting, trafficking and illicit sale of antiquities.

  • Chapter 15 - Frontiers of a Shrinking World

  • from Part II - American Literary Climates
  • Edited by Michael Boyden, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
  • Book:
    Climate and American Literature
    Published online:
    18 February 2021
    Print publication:
    04 March 2021, pp 257-272

  • Summary

    Under the pressure of climate change and other global environmental crises, a new disciplinary coalition between historians, literary critics, social theorists, and artists has emerged in the twenty-first century under the banner of "environmental humanities. "This essay explores the disciplinary changes involved in this discursive and institutional shift, highlighting the elements of older environmentalism that have faded or been significantly changed by the newer paradigm and tracing the novel research lines emerging from climate studies. The possible generative conflicts within environmental humanities are reviewed.