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Sins of the shovel : looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology

text Sins of the shovel : looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology

Morgan, Rachel

Summary
"Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous s... Read more
Contents
Prologue -- A palace in the sky -- The robber baron -- All the world's a fair -- Toward the grand gulch -- Whence and whither -- Bonito, 1895 -- Cacao and turquoise -- Return to the grand gulch -- The trade -- Digging deeper -- Death by committee ... Read more
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Description
viii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press 2023
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East Bay Branch Library 970.004 MOR in New Non-fiction Available

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