It refers primarily to ‘tomb-robbers’ operating in Italy ( Mackenzie and Green 2009: 3), although the term ‘clandestini’ (meaning ‘illegals’ or ‘clandestines’ in Italian) has also been used to describe clandestine diggers (Renfrew 2000: 17), and a tombarolo might not necessarily limit their activities only to tombs and graves for example sometimes removing material from villas and other sites (Watson and Todeschini 2006: 151).Įlia (2001: 151) notes that many tombaroli are often ‘full-time looters’, concurred with by Draepler et al, who also described local tomb robbers in Puglia (Apulia) as ‘professional’ (1993: 32). ‘ Tombarolo’ is an Italian term (plural ‘tombaroli’), derived from the Italian word ‘tomba’, meaning tomb or grave.
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