The Importance of Monitoring the Markets

The United States is in some sense unique in that we collect from everywhere. The number one emerging antiquities collecting market in the world are the golf states and when they go there, they never come out. With a little sophistication and tweaking, it's fair to say that eventually you might cut off the looting if you start cutting off the collectors but not right away because they will stockpile material. These are people who have grown accustomed to getting their way in everything they do. If I see something I want, I just buy it."