Relic hunters : archaeology and the public in nineteenth-century America /

Relic Hunters is a study of the complex relationship between the people of 19th century America with the material antiquities of North America's indigenous past. As scholars struggled to explain their existence, farmers in Ohio were plowing up arrowheads, building their houses atop burial mound...

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Main Author: Snead, James E. (James Elliott), 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in the history of archaeology.
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