Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology
Author: Rachel Morgan Narrator: Rachel Perry Length: 9 hours and 33 minutes Version: Unabridged ⭐ 4.2 out of 5 stars 25 reviews 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,…