"Our policy is that artifacts that we acquire are donated.
The people insisted that artifacts of their proud past along the river be preserved.
Skeptics had suspected that artifacts of more recent vintage had somehow intruded into the cave's lower and thus older sediments.
I agree that artifacts of genuine historic or cultural significance should be available to the public and to scholars, not hidden away in private collections.
In the journal article, Dr. Lepre's group said that artifacts from an earlier and simpler technology, Oldowan, were found alongside the more advanced Acheulean tools.
When he checked California's laws, he found that artifacts just had to have an association with the state to be listed.
It would take a very courageous man to stand up in Uzbekistan and shout that artifacts, including glazed tile revetments, are dispatched to Western auctions.
But they cautioned that it was difficult, when dealing with riverbed deposits, to be sure that artifacts had not become jumbled out of their true place, and thus time, in the geologic layers.
The indictment did not indicate the intended recipients of the stolen goods, but preservationists have long worried that artifacts have been harvested from the West for private collections and even museums.
"It also ensures that artifacts from the Titanic are collected and curated in accordance with current scientific standards and kept intact and available to the public as a collection".
A leading Italian expert in Etruscan archaeology testified in Rome yesterday that artifacts found during a 1995 raid on a Swiss warehouse had probably been unearthed in chamber tombs, a traditional burial system typical in Italy.
