guaquería
English translation: "huaca looting"
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|  Selected response from: teju Local time: 05:15 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | despoiling |
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| 4 +1 | plundering/looting/ransack/pillage/foray |
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| 4 +1 | tomb raiding |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1despoiling Explanation: This word is used commonly in archaeological contexts for the damaging and robbing of archaeological sites, or unregulated looting of artefacts. See for instance: http://www.archaeology.org/9809/newsbriefs/backflap.html |
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5 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1plundering/looting/ransack/pillage/foray Explanation: Varias opciones. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 mins (2010-04-07 17:30:59 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Did you mean: taqueria looting OR plundering Search Results 1. "Looting Question" Bibliography - bibliography from Meyer ... *BRUHNS, KAREN O. "The Methods of the Guaqueria: Illicit Tomb Looting in Colombia," Archaeology, April, 1972, pp. 140-43. BUCHWALD, ART. ... wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Documents/bib-b.html - Cached 2. Heritage Law Bibliography Title: The Methods of Guaqueria: Illicit Tomb Looting in Colombia. Title Source-1st: Archaeology. Volume Number: 25. Date of Publication: 1972 ... daryl.chin.gc.ca:8000/SEARCH/BASIS/herb/user/www/DDW?...INC... 3. Ancient South America - Google Books Result Karen Olsen Bruhns - 1994 - History - 424 pages ... (guaqueria): looting of ancient sites. ... books.google.com/books?isbn=0521277612... 4. [PDF] The Biosphere reserve of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: a ... File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML the practice of “guaqueria”: the plundering of archaeological sites. In the 197Os, with the reduction in the supply of marihuana from Mexico, North-American ... unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0011/001185/118591Eo.pdf 5. Prehispanic Ridged Fields of Central Colombia by KO Bruhns - 1981 - Cited by 1 - Related articles and guaqueros: Karen Olsen Bruhns, "The Methods of Guaqueria, Illicit. Tomb Looting in Colombia,a' Archaeology 25 (1972) 140-143. ... www.jstor.org/stable/529779 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 mins (2010-04-07 17:32:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In google, "looting" provided more hits. I just did a translation about this topic, this is what I used. |
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17 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1tomb raiding Explanation: Just another option. |
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