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« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2011, 06:39:52 pm »
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They Claim Meteorites as well.    Soon it will be Rocks!  LOL!

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« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2011, 09:10:48 pm »
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They Claim Meteorites as well.    Soon it will be Rocks!  LOL!


Well, I'm not crazy at all about a meteorite falling in my property to claim it as mine.  Grin

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« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2011, 04:54:56 pm »
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"To be considered an antique in the trade it must be 100 years old but the  1906 Antiquities Act claim anything over 5o years old is an antique"

.......When the law was written, it made a lot of sense.   There was a lot of photographic or other documentary evidence prior to 1856 so in a period when archeology in the US was young, it made sense to say everything older than 50 years is an antiquity and therefor subject to protection for the good of our common knowledge and understanding.   However, since that law was written, we've gone documentation crazy.  Never in history has there been so many visual and audio records of the daily lives of ordinary people (forget the documents for the famous and infamous) as there have been since 1906....and especially since the second world war.   The reason for protecting and preserving antiquities is to ensure that we can study and understand our forebearers....especially when those physical antiquities are the only link we have.   However, with all we have documented since 1906, if someone doesn't know how people lived in 1956, it's because they don't want to know.....and yet it is illegal to recover anything made in 1956 from Federal land or from the jurisdiction of any state that bases its laws on the US law  (whether you get charged with the crime or not).

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« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2011, 05:03:30 pm »
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Last year there was a Gent fined $700.00 for six square nails he pick up in the Gila Forest.

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« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2011, 05:04:49 pm »
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Heaven help me if they ever find the nail collection the wife and I are putting together.

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« Reply #15 on: September 07, 2011, 07:04:52 pm »
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You see! That's the nonsense I critique so energetically. Those nails would completely desintegrate along with its "historical" value unless recovered by someone. Of course because that someone is not an  archaelogist, he/she is penalized for finding an otherwise lost piece of history. In my view, that a common citizen recovered history should be a reason for celebration, not punishment. I mean, besides the opportunity to collect revenue, what could a few old, rusty nails could add to the preponderance of history we have nowadays? 

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« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2011, 12:13:31 pm »
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And you would be correct Cyber. Nonsense! The 1906 antiquites law made sense then, but it no longer does.  But those that want to control everone's daily lives wil continue to fight for it.  The 1979 Archaeological Act specifically stated that anything under 100 years old was okay to take.  However BLM and Forest Service interpreted it to be 50 years old, even though the 1979 act specifically stated 100 years!  Maybe they used the 1906 law to guide them instead of the new law...

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« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2011, 12:48:58 pm »
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If you read the Original 1906 law, if was only intended to protect Native American sites.

It's sense been interpreted to include stuff like Meteorites!

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