By David La Vere
How an old North American civilization was once plundered within the 20th century
When a bunch of relic hunters drove their alternatives right into a misplaced Indian burial crypt in jap Oklahoma in 1935, they unearthed an enormous treasure trove of Mississippian art—considered through many on the time to be America’s solution to King Tut’s Tomb. additionally they ignited an issue that maintains to have repercussions all through archaeological and American Indian communities.
The Spiro Mounds contained one of the most outstanding pre-Columbian Indian paintings ever came upon. In Looting Spiro Mounds, David los angeles Vere takes readers behind the curtain of this discovery to re-create an excellent Depression–era archaeological experience beneficial of Indiana Jones.
The looting of the mounds is taken into account one of many significant archaeological tragedies of all time. at the present time Spiro artifacts are scattered one of the world’s museums, with a few nonetheless circulating within the antiquities marketplace and eagerly snatched up via creditors. l. a. Vere weaves a compelling tale of grave robbers and misplaced treasures as he items jointly the puzzle of the civilization that thrived at Spiro from A.D. 800 to 1450. He plumbs the secret of why the folks of Spiro deserted the positioning, abandoning their treasures yet no forwarding address.
Looting Spiro Mounds explains what the ongoing mystique of Spiro artifacts is all approximately because the publication uncovers a controversy—and a mystery—that lives directly to this day.
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