Tom King has written many things over the years on working with looters and avocational archaeologists — I suggest contacting him. If you don’t have his email address, message me privately. Margie Akin wrote a paper in 1996 titled, "Passionate Possession: the Formation of Private Collections.” And, I wrote a grad school paper in 1988 that I later stuck on my website: http://historian4hire.net/relics/relics.htm <http://historian4hire.net/relics/relics.htm>. It’s a graduate student paper and it’s not what I would write today but it has some good sources in the bibliography and some pretty pictures.

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