File:Plundered Native American grave site with broken pottery.png

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English: This is a photograph of a looted grave site of the Ancestral Puebloan people. Archaeologists and began removing artifacts from their historical contexts in the 1880s. In the 1960s looters began using bulldozers and backhoes to excavate grave sites to find artifacts to sell on the black market.
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Source Uncopyrighted journal publication of the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management at this URL: https://ia801000.us.archive.org/3/items/ourpubliclandsvo00bure_6/ourpubliclandsvo00bure_6.pdf See also Archive.org link: [1] https://archive.org/details/ourpubliclandsvo00bure_6
Author U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management

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Desecrated grave site of Ancestral Puebloan people, looted for artifacts.

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Ancestral Puebloans

Mesa Verde National Park

archaeological artefact

looting

pottery ware

pottery

Pueblo pottery

Anasazi

grave robbery

Native Americans in the United States

copyright status

public domain

applies to jurisdiction: United States
determination method or standard: work of the federal government of the United States

inception

1979

media type

image/png

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