Digging for Dollars: American Archaeology and the New Deal - Paperback

by Paul Fagette (Author)

Fagette's book is a thorough, compelling history of American archaeology in its most critical decade, the 1930s.

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This study investigates the institutional evolution of American archaeology during the 1930s. Its primary focus is the process by which archaeologists created a modern professional science through government, especially at the federal level.