Sins of the Shovel Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology by Rachel Morgan
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Title: Sins of the Shovel
Author: Rachel Morgan
Year: N/A
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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-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill had stumbled upon Mesa Verde's spectacular cliff dwellings and started selling artifacts, but with the Hydes' money behind him, well—there's no telling what they might discover. Thus begins the Hyde Exploring Expedition, a nine-year venture into Utah's Grand Gulch and New Mexico's Chaco Canyon that—coupled with other less-restrained looters—so devastates Indigenous cultural sites across the American Southwest that Congress passes first-of-their-kind regulations to stop the carnage. As the money dries up, tensions rise, and a once-profitable enterprise disintegrates, setting the stage for a tragic...
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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-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill had stumbled upon Mesa Verde's spectacular cliff dwellings and started selling artifacts, but with the Hydes' money behind him, well—there's no telling what they might discover. Thus begins the Hyde Exploring Expedition, a nine-year venture into Utah's Grand Gulch and New Mexico's Chaco Canyon that—coupled with other less-restrained looters—so devastates Indigenous cultural sites across the American Southwest that Congress passes first-of-their-kind regulations to stop the carnage. As the money dries up, tensions rise, and a once-profitable enterprise disintegrates, setting the stage for a tragic...
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https://rapidgator.net/file/4f35d25c436fc83f2ac2e655ade51bc6/Sins_of_the_Shovel__Looting_Murder_and_the_Evolution_of_American_Archaeology_by_Rachel_Morgan_.rar
https://k2s.cc/file/c5ba19cdc7598/Sins_of_the_Shovel__Looting_Murder_and_the_Evolution_of_American_Archaeology_by_Rachel_Morgan_.rar
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