Stop Spike TV from Looting our Collective Past!
This show, as advertised by Spike TV (http://aroundthenetworks.com/spike-tv-announces-unscripted-show-american-digger/), will follow a team “led by former professional wrestler-turned-modern- day relic hunter Ric Savage as they scour … battlefields and historic sites, in hopes of striking it rich by unearthing and selling rare pieces of American history.”
“American Diggers,” as described, encourages and glorifies looting and the antiquities trade at the expense of American history. Although the items pilfered by the team are acknowledged to have “great historical and cultural significance,” these items are sold for individual profit.
This is not okay!
Please, take a moment to sign this petition!
Archaeologists/Anthropologists….UNITE!This is a step backwards archaeological and anthropological ethics. This is the glorification of looting and site destruction. The proposition of “… unearthing and selling rare pieces of American history” is not okay, and will basically depict this man doing something archaeologists have spent decades trying to distinguish as separate from their profession, and are still trying to stop.
