Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology by Rachel Morgan

Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology

Rachel Morgan

328 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology medium-paced
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American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill had stumbled upon Mesa Verde’s spectacular cliff dwelling...

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