The Spiro Mounds contained some of the most
impressive pre-Columbian Indian art ever found, all piled atop hundreds
of human skeletons. In Looting Spiro
Mounds, David La Vere takes readers behind the scenes to
re-create a Great Depression-era archaeological adventure worthy of
Indiana Jones.
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 reconstructs this major Mississippian
chiefdom and the lives of the priest-chiefs who were buried there. He
also plumbs the mystery of why the people of Spiro abandoned the site,
leaving behind their treasures but no forwarding address.
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Looting Spiro Mounds
An American King Tut's Tomb
by David La Vere
University of Oklahoma Press,
2007
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