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Tombraiding has been Hollywood glamourised through the Indiana Joneses and Lara Crofts and a range of new video games that play on this land-based version of the kind of piracy that used to prevail on the high seas around the Caribbean. And it dates back to the Caribbean as a target in the quest for El Dorado so many millennia ago. Not
to be confused with body snatchers, it ranges from the activities of hobbyists seemingly
innocently eager to hoard a bit of history so they comb graveyards to gather
bits and pieces from or off tombs, to petty thieves looking to earn a quick
shilling, to highly organised crime networks trading in black market heritage
goods with complicity by individual collectors or even museum dealers
participating in a very lucrative heritage trade market.
Tombraiding has been Hollywood glamourised through the Indiana Joneses and Lara Crofts and a range of new video games that play on this land-based version of the kind of piracy that used to prevail on the high seas around the Caribbean. And it dates back to the Caribbean as a target in the quest for El Dorado so many millennia ago. Not
to be confused with body snatchers, it ranges from the activities of hobbyists seemingly
innocently eager to hoard a bit of history so they comb graveyards to gather
bits and pieces from or off tombs, to petty thieves looking to earn a quick
shilling, to highly organised crime networks trading in black market heritage
goods with complicity by individual collectors or even museum dealers
participating in a very lucrative heritage trade market.
It
has been a raison d’etre of interest in the Caribbean since
See Also: http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2012/10/centuries-old-heritage-tomb-spanning.html#more
https://sites.google.com/site/krisrampersadglobal/home/about-me/books
See Also: http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2012/10/centuries-old-heritage-tomb-spanning.html#more
https://sites.google.com/site/krisrampersadglobal/home/about-me/books
