Our request is to our colleagues to forward what they already use to meet 
this need of explaining the difference between archaeology and looting. 
(The SAA public web pages serve as a clearing house for information for our 
publics and peers looking for useful resources.This is a topic we have had 
requests for and are trying to fill this need.)

We have received several very good suggestions for readings on this subject 
and some of the suggestions are also accompanied by lesson plans. But we 
have also received new ideas such as this one involving the medium of comic 
books and one by Tim Thompson for an illustration (photographic rich) 
approach (as opposed to text) which explains archaeology vs. looting to 
non-readers.

I am wondering if, as a body of professional practioners, there has been a 
need identified that is not currently met -- i.e., audiences our current 
materials do not reach -- as well as new possibilities for information and 
education emerging from new technology interfaces.

In either case, I hope talented and enterprising colleagues will take note 
and produce non-traditional materials on this topic (and let the web pages 
clearing house know about their existence once they are created).

PL Jeppson, on behalf of the SAA PEC Web Pages Working Group (Carol 
McDavid, Mary Kwas, and SAA Manager of Education and Information, Maureen 
Malloy (www.saa.org/public)



At 03:55 AM 9/26/2006 -0400, you wrote:

>Why not hire a comic book illustrator to draw your messages in a popular
>form that any looter would understand? Then put it on a website and use 
>the same
>graphics for a power point presentation that can be distributed by CD to lots
>of  other archaeologists?
>
>Did I mention the comic book convention this past July had 110,000  visitors?
>Lots of those people looked like looters, assuming I know what a  looter
>looks like?
>
>Ron May
>Legacy 106, Inc.
>
>
>
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