Sins of the ShovelAn incisive history of early American archaeologyfrom reckless looting to professional scienceand the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today, told "with passion, indignation, and a dash of suspense" (New York Times). 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