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

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. Thes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Rachel (Archaeologist) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2023].
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology) > United States.
Indians of North America > Antiquities.
United States > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • A palace in the sky
  • The robber baron
  • All the world's a fair
  • Toward the grand gulch
  • Whence and whither
  • Bonito, 1895
  • Cacao and turquoise
  • Return to the grand gulch
  • The trade
  • Digging deeper
  • Death by committee
  • Anni horribiles
  • All's fair...St. Louis, 1904
  • An act for the preservation of American antiquities
  • The race for the rainbow bridge
  • On the borderland of hell
  • Where the red rocks run under
  • Back to the gulch, again
  • New deal, new archaeology
  • From potsherds to process
  • The grand gulch under fire
  • People without names
  • Repatriation
  • The past
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.