Fight Against The Antique Trade
Muscarella sees rich collectors and museums as greatly harming archeology. By offering such great sums for important artifacts, they create great incentives for people to hastily excavate sites in order to find the most marketable artifacts. Since these people have no incentive to take the care that professional archaeologists would, they may end up destroying a great many of the site's artifacts. Large parts of culture history, it is claimed, have been destroyed in this manner.
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