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Looting the antiquities of Mali: the story continues at Gao

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Timothy Insoll
Timothy Insoll*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England
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Abstract

A further report on what is being snatched away of the antiquities of Mali. The usual story the world over is of export to cash-rich western collectors, and this is something different, the archaeological site as quarry of recycled materials that are treated by another scale of values.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 256 , September 1993 , pp. 628 - 632
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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