Sins of the shovel : looting, murder, and the evolution of American archaeology / Rachel Morgan.

An incisive history of early American archaeology--from reckless looting to professional science--and the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today. American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-tu...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Morgan, Rachel (Archaeologist) (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, IL : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Subjects:	Excavations (Archaeology) > United States. Indians of North America > Antiquities. United States > Antiquities. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) United States.