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Canada worried strict US laws sending heritage thieves north

Archeological sites closer to the U.S. border appear more likely to be looted as Americans face stricter penalties for such crimes back home, says an unpublished report for Canadian Heritage.

Researchers with the Snuneymuxw First Nation said last month that they were holding off on going public about artifacts they've uncovered, fearing that thieves would get to the archeological site before work was complete.

The 2001 report Research on Looting of Canada's Archeological Heritage, obtained through Access to Information, said there is extensive evidence of "a continuing problem" with site-looting underwater in Nova Scotia and on land in B.C., Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador. In B.C., looters prefer "wet sites" and burial sites.
Read entire article at Canada.com