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

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Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology - Morgan, Rachel
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"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 sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century explorers led to more rigorous and ethical norms, as well as ...

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Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology 2023, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226822389

Hardcover