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Grave Robbing as Philanthropy (new article)
My article, “Grave Robbing as Philanthropy: How Tombs Became Taxable Treasure in Colonial Latin America,” is now out in the latest issue of Renaissance Quarterly. It explains how ancient and medieval Iberian legal traditions pertaining to buried treasure influenced the development of a widespread phenomenon of licensed grave robbing in colonial Latin America. The article…
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Map is live
This is just a quick announcement that a version of the treasure map is now live with fourteen excavation records uploaded so far. Currently they are color sorted by document type, but more improvements to the interface and more excavation records will be added shortly! Thanks for visiting,Jeff
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Introduction
Thank you for visiting this page! This website is part of my History Ph.D. dissertation project at the University of Rochester, “Treasure Excavations in the Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic World,” a study of bureaucratic, inquisitorial, and criminal records of licensed and illicit treasure-hunting and grave-robbing in Iberia and colonial Latin America. Licensed treasure hunting…