By Sharman Apt Russell
Whether eyeing the speculation that people triggered the extinction of Pleistocene mega-fauna, or the calls for for the repatriation of local American is still, or the which means of burial mounds in Ohio, Russell retains in transparent view the concept there are a number of methods of interpreting the previous. She interviews an array of characters who've been instrumental in reshaping glossy archaeology and speaks to these, equivalent to Pawnee activists struggling with for the go back of ancestral is still or a Navajo archaeologist at odds together with his people's prohibition opposed to dealing with the useless, who proceed to strive against with the character and perform of archaeology today.
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