kids encyclopedia robot

Image: Plundered Native American grave site with broken pottery

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
Original image ‎(1,362 × 1,278 pixels, file size: 1.46 MB, MIME type: image/png)

Description: 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.
Title: Plundered Native American grave site with broken pottery
Credit: 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
Author: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No

The following page links to this image:

kids search engine
All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise.