Lives in Ruins (38 page)

Poverty Point earthworks, 8–9

pre-Clovis cultures (North America), 98

prehistoric art.
See
art, prehistoric

preservation.
See
collections: access and preservation; historic preservation

preservation law versus salvage law.
See
salvage law versus preservation law

Preserving Heritage in the Caribbean
(Siegal and Righter), 26

Primitive Technologies (Shea class), 66

private property, 167–68, 172.
See also
landowners; real estate development

protection of cultural property in wartime.
See
wartime protection of cultural property

pseudoscience and fraud, 130, 229–30

Ptolemy XV.
See
Caesarion

Puerto Rico, 20

Pursuit, Jaime, 197n

Putnam, Israel, 167

pyramids, Peruvian, 26–27, 237–38

quarries, 147–48

radar, 24, 75

radiocarbon-dating.
See
carbon-dating

Rand, Ayn, 177

real estate development, 155, 172, 230–31, 236

reenactors.
See
historical reenactors

Register of Professional Archaeologists, 164–65

Reichs, Kathy: “Bones” Brennan series, 179

religion, 124, 125–26, 139, 149, 150

replica sites, military use of, 207–8

reverse engineering, 70

Revolutionary War, 18, 107–8, 155–69, 171–74; ships and shipwrecks, 101, 103, 109–10, 116

Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP), 101–19

RKLOG Press, 81

Roach, Mary:
Stiff
, 180

rock.
See
stone

Roman Empire, 134, 138

Roosevelt, Teddy, 131

ruins, Incan.
See
Incan ruins

rum, 21, 27, 34

Rumsfeld, Donald, 192

Rush, Laurie, 198–216

Russell, John, 199

Rutgers Pinelands Field Station, 179

Rutsch, Ed, 161, 162n

SAA.
See
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)

Saba (island), 28

St. Eustatius (island), 18–36, 88–90, 93

St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research (SECAR), 17–36, 89

St. Maarten (island), 29

St. Thomas (island), 26

saliva in fermentation of beverages, 71

salvage law versus preservation law, 112

Sandy, Bill, 155–71, 173

satellite photography, 236

Save America's Treasures, 86

Schleswig, Germany, 6

Schofield, John, 223, 224–25, 232–35

Schumer, Chuck, 167

Screwtape Letters
(Lewis), 60–61

scuba diving, 104, 105

SECAR (St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research).
See
St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research (SECAR)

September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: recovery of remains, 175–77, 178, 189

sex, contemporary: “in the field,” 62, 80

sex, prehistoric: in fiction, 57n

sexism, 80, 81, 104–5, 130

screening of excavated material, 24, 34, 162

Shady Solís, Ruth, 226–28, 236, 238–39

shamans, women, 55, 80

Shanidar Cave, Iraq, 52, 54

Shanidar: The First Flower People
(Solecki), 61–62

Shea, John, 37–54, 58–59, 60–67, 85

shells, 31, 47

ships: found in landfill, 160; sunken, 17, 100, 101, 103, 104, 109–18

sifting.
See
screening of excavated material

silver artifacts, 91

Silverman, Helaine, 228–29, 230–31, 232

Sinamai, Ashton, 220, 224–25

Sint Eustatius.
See
St. Eustatius (island)

site contamination, 178, 180, 182

site destruction.
See
demolition of historic sites and buildings

site secrecy, 164

skeletons, 32; China, 83; Dolní Věstonice, 48, 49; Yeronisos, 148–50

skulls, 35; crystal, 130; Georgia (country), 39, 88; gifts of, 32; infants', 28; Jericho, 47; Omo Kibish, 40; part-eaten, 51; size of, 43

slaves, 17, 20, 21, 23; burial grounds, 26, 31.
See also
freedpeople

smallpox, 156, 157

smelly things, 30, 46, 47, 176, 184

smugglers and smuggling, 33

snakes, 32, 126, 127

Society for American Archaeology (SAA), 59, 77, 85

soldiers: cultural training, 191, 197, 198, 201, 202–3, 207–9, 213–15; Revolutionary War, 155–57, 166–67, 168, 171–74

Solecki, Ralph, 52, 54, 55, 61–62

Solecki, Rose, 52, 54

sonar, 112

South America, 45n, 71.
See also
Peru

South Dakota, 9–11, 95–100

spears, 57, 60, 66

spiders and insects.
See
insects and spiders

Staffordshire Hoard, 91

stairs, ancient, 136, 142, 226

Star Wars
, 150

State University of New York at Stony Brook, 37–39, 41–54, 62–67

statuary, 48, 75, 198

Sterlingville, New York, 208–9

Stewart, Al, 185n

stone: dating of, 40; trumps dirt in archaeological destinations, 222

stone circles, 210–11

stone images.
See
geoglyphs; petroglyphs

stone tools, 39, 44, 50, 187; axes, 37, 38–39, 40–41; butchery with, 63–66; channel flakes from, 205; classification and naming of, 60–61; debris, 210.
See also
flintknapping

stone weapons, 47, 50, 66

Stony Brook University.
See
State University of New York at Stony Brook

Stringer, Chris, 58

stuffed animals (taxidermy), 131–32

submarines, 104

sugar industry, 17, 20–21, 23, 27, 34

sunken ships.
See
ships: sunken

SUNY Stony Brook.
See
State University of New York at Stony Brook

Sussex County Community College, New Jersey, 169

swimming, 135, 145

synagogues, 25–26

tarantulas, 34

Tattersall, Ian, 58

Taylor, W. W., 104

taxidermy.
See
stuffed animals (taxidermy)

teeth, 28, 46–47; of goats, 44; of infants, 162, 175–76

television, 126, 127, 131, 139, 145, 179, 215

tells (mounds), 46

temples: ancient Greece, 124, 134; China, 75, 80, 82; Iraq, 194, 199; Jordan, 62

“test pits,” 23–25, 30–31, 169

Texas, 45n

theater, 62, 143

theft, 146–47.
See also
looting and looted artifacts

Thieves of Baghdad
(Bogdanos), 192

Thompson, Dorothy Burr, 133

tobacco pipes, 19, 27, 33, 187

Tollund Man, 6, 232

tombs.
See
graves and burial grounds

tools, ancient, 203; made of bone, 98; made of coral, 29–30.
See also
axes, ancient; stone tools

tourists and tourism, 26, Deadwood, 96; Newport, 111; Peru, 220, 223, 225, 230, 231, 234, 238

travel writing, 221

treasure hunters, 215

Trimble, Sonny, 87n

“trophy heads,” Nasca, 229

trophy rooms, 131–32

tuition for field schools, 15, 143n

Turkey, 69

typology.
See
classification and naming

Ulrich, Roger, 213

Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
(McGovern), 71–72

underwater archaeology, 101–19

unemployment, 85, 90–92.
See also
employment prospects

UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act, 127

UNESCO World Heritage sites, 8–9, 219, 220n, 228, 231, 232; Libya, 193; Malta, 233–34; Peru, 226–27, 230

uniformitarianism, 45

United Kingdom.
See
Great Britain

United Nations, 193, 225

University of Charleston, 94

University of Michigan, 77, 79

University of Pennsylvania, 69, 70

U.S. Air Force, 104, 169, 191

U.S. Army, 191, 194, 199–216; Tenth Mountain Division, 206

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 87, 161n

U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum, 171

U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield, 192–94

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), 193, 196, 200, 202, 212

U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, 195

U.S. government funding.
See
federal funding

Valletta, Malta, 233–34

Van Wyck Homestead, Fishkill, New York, 156, 157, 165, 168, 173

vans, cars, etc.
See
motor vehicles

Varonos-Pavlopoulos, Talia, 136, 143, 144, 145

venomous snakes, 127

“Venus figures,” 48, 55

Virginia, 8, 104, 118, 188

Vitelli, Giovanni, 87

volcanoes, 18, 20, 29.
See also
Pompeii

wartime protection of cultural property, 190–99, 201, 202–3, 207–8, 209, 212.
See also
Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict

War of 1812, 167, 215

Washington, D.C., 175, 186–88

Washington, George, 156, 157, 167

Washington State, 64, 160–61n

weapons, 91.
See also
stone weapons

Wegener, Corine, 192–98

whales and whale parts, 131, 132

Wiese, Richard, 131, 139

Willem, Willem J. H., 220

Windeby Girl, 6

wine-beer mixtures, 68, 69–70

Wing Tsue Emporium, Deadwood, South Dakota, 96, 97–98

Wisconsin, 7–8

Wolf, Judy, 171

Wong, Fee Lee, 96, 97

World Heritage sites.
See
UNESCO World Heritage sites

World Trade Center, New York City, 175–77, 178, 189

World War I submarines, 104

World War II, 114, 164, 191, 198, 206

Wreaths Across America, 168

Yale University, 235

Yellen, John, 88

Yeronisos (island), 124, 126–27, 131, 134–54

Yoda (fictional character), 150

Young, Eric, 181, 184, 185, 186

ziggurats, 194, 201

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*
Other counts differ, but the bodies number in the hundreds. Gill-Frerking's count for the international exhibit was as of 2012.

*
From an exhibit at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

*
SECAR moved in early 2013 to less gritty quarters in Oranjestad.

*
As reporter Michael Balter quotes Shea in a profile in
Science
February 8, 2013.