As an informed stroll through any western museum will attest, archeology has become inextricably bound with ethics and considerations of cultural sovereignty. Drawn from a seminar series held from October to December 2004, and motivated in part by the looting of cultural objects in recent military conflicts, these nine essays reflect the long and strong debate amongst archeologists, museums, and the legal antiquities trade. Their contributors describe the case for an open public debate on cultural artifacts, changes in collecting over the past 50 years, accessibility to the public and to scholars, new legal and voluntary codes, views from the antiquities and coin trades, the debate on cultural property, recent UK regulations against illicit trade in cultural objects, and lessons on repatriation learned from the Glasgow experience. Distributed in the US by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)