"How an ancient North American civilization was plundered in the
twentieth century"
When a group of relic hunters drove their picks into a lost
Indian burial crypt in eastern Oklahoma in 1935, they unearthed a
vast treasure trove of Mississippian art--considered by many at the
time to be America's answer to King Tut's Tomb. They also ignited a
controversy that continues to have repercussions throughout
archaeological and American Indian communities.
The Spiro Mounds contained some of the most impressive
pre-Columbian Indian art ever found. In "Looting Spiro Mounds,"
David La Vere takes readers behind the scenes of this discovery to
re-create a Great Depression-era archaeological adventure worthy of
Indiana Jones.
The looting of the mounds is considered one of the major
archaeological tragedies of all time. Today Spiro artifacts are
scattered among the world's museums, with some still circulating in
the antiquities market and eagerly snatched up by collectors. La
Vere weaves a compelling story of grave robbers and lost treasures
as he pieces together the puzzle of the civilization that thrived
at Spiro from A.D. 800 to 1450. He plumbs the mystery of why the
people of Spiro abandoned the site, leaving behind their treasures
but no forwarding address.
"Looting Spiro Mounds" explains what the continuing mystique of
Spiro artifacts is all about as the book uncovers a
controversy--and a mystery--that lives on to this day.
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