Sins of the shovel : looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology / Rachel Morgan.
"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 dwellings and started selling artifacts, but with the H...
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2023.
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