Tag: Treasure Hunting
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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…