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<< Sites under Threat >> $5000 Reward: Ancient Bedrock Mortar Stolen in California

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 04 December 2006  Page Views: 4683

Site WatchCountry: United States The Californian Morongo Band indians focus efforts to find and prosecute individual or group for the theft of an ancient artifact. More details, including contact details for reporting information are in the linked article below.

Theft of cultural items from a United States Indian reservation is a federal crime under the Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) and subject to significant fines and jail time. The minimum penalty does not exceed $10,000 and one year in jail or both and the maximum penalty is $100,000 and 5 years in jail or both.

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Re: $5000 Reward: Ancient Bedrock Mortar Stolen in California by Anonymous on Thursday, 22 February 2007
I support the effort to prosecute looters of Indian grounds. I liken it to looting a cemetary in the city.
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Widespread looting is ravaging Indian ruins by Andy B on Monday, 04 December 2006
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An estimated 80 percent of the USA's ancient archaeological sites have been plundered or robbed by shovel-toting looters. Though some of the pillaging is done by amateurs who don't know any better, more serious damage is wrought by professionals who dig deep, sometimes even using backhoes.

The motive is money. Indian artifacts are coveted worldwide by collectors willing to pay for trophy pieces of the past.

Looters are just the first link in a chain that includes collectors, galleries, trade shows and Internet sites such as eBay. But stopping the black-market business is virtually impossible because of a lack of manpower for enforcement and loopholes in the law that make it hard to convict the few who get caught.

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Re: $5000 Reward: Ancient Bedrock Mortar Stolen in California by Andy B on Thursday, 30 November 2006
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In a move to protect its cultural artifacts, the Morongo Band of Mission Indians announced today that a recent theft has prompted the tribal government to adopt a more aggressive policy on the prosecution of such thefts.

According to reports by the tribe's reservation patrol, someone in May or June entered a part of the Morongo reservation normally located behind two locked gates and stole a large granite boulder -- somewhere between 500-800 pounds -- with a bedrock mortar or Indian "grinding hole" in it. The culprit(s) used heavy equipment such as a skiploader, backhoe or bobcat to forcibly remove this artifact. Another large boulder with a bedrock mortar was also moved about 80 feet in an apparent attempt to steal it as well.

"Morongo will no longer take a passive approach to thefts like these," said Morongo tribal chairman Robert Martin. "We have notified federal authorities who are working with the reservation patrol on this case. The tribe will pursue prosecution and the tribe is also issuing a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of the theft."

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