Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb

by David La Vere

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806138130
• ISBN13: 9780806138138
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"