Free Download Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSM6FQTG | 2024 | 9 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 282 MB
Author: Rachel Morgan
Narrator: Rachel Perry
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.
