Cultural Resources Protection Law - Range of the Use of Section 6 (c) of ARPA

The sessions shown below address activities associated with the Presentation on Cultural Resources Protection Law. There are sessions addressing The Range of Use of Section 6(c) of ARP. Including Hopewell Culture, Vatican Documents, Vatical Forensic Pathology, Kenyon College Library Case, and the Summary of Elements.

Cultural Resources Protection Law Range of the Use of Section 6(c) of ARPA Videos

  1. Intro Range of the Use of Section 6(c) of ARPA  ( 06:12)Description You are about to view a presentation on Cultural Resources Protection Law titled "The Range of Use of Section 6(c) of ARPA." The presenter is Mike Marous. Section 6(c) of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act prohibits acts in interstate or foreign commerce involving archaeological resources that have been excavated, removed, sold, purchased, exchanged, transported or received in violation of state or local law.
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  2. Hopewell Culture  (09:19)Description: This session begins with the first of the three examples in United States versus Gerber. The Gerber case begins in Southern Indiana in the mid-1980s, and believe me, it's just a coincidence that it's Southern Indiana and we’ve just showed you a video of "Indiana Jones." This case has nothing to do with it except that there was the theft of artifacts involved in United States v Gerber. In Gerber after General Electric buys this land and they want to put a road on their property, they have bulldozer operators who are excavating a large mound. This mound is about 400 feet long and about 75 feet wide, and at first when they first saw the land, the officials at GE had no idea what was there. As the bulldozer operators began moving the earth around this mound they began to notice artifacts, all kinds of artifacts.

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  3. Vatican Documents (12:34)Description: The next case I want to address is United States v Melinkas. This case came to the United States Attorney in Columbus, Ohio, from a matter that was brought to the attention of U.S. Customs. This session will give you an idea of the mystery we had to solve in dealing with this case.

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  4. Vatican Forensic Pathology (18:23)Description: The publicity aside, we had some important challenges before us. We wanted to establish the case against Professor Melnikas. Keep in mind that we had two manuscript pages that were provided in 1994. You may recall we shared with you the "King Freeing Slave" and "Man Fighting Dog." We now suspected that these two manuscript pages were likewise stolen but we had no idea where they came from.

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  5. Kenyon College Library Case (12:31)Description: The next case that we're going to talk about is United States versus David Breithaupt, a case involving the Kenyon College Library. Breaking into a library or museum can have its perils. In fact, it can be very risky. Let's watch this video.

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  6. Summary of Elements (02:16)Description: To summarize the elements, and this is actually from one of the Ohio cases just to keep in mind, when you're trying to put together one of these cases, you must establish that the defendant did without permission sell, purchase, exchange or transport without permission, receive or offer to sell interstate or foreign commerce an archaeological resource.

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