She tried to reassure them by saying that when she and her colleagues found burials, the police would keep an eye on the sites until they could get them cleared out. They said witches would come at night, steal the bones of people she was digging up, and grind them into powder that would be used in black magic rituals, hexes.
She told me guys would come up to her, Navajo men, and tell her she should not be doing this. Sitting at the booth she whispered, "I hate the Navajo." She was raw labor in the growing field of cultural resource management, working for an environmental consulting firm that sent excavators out to clear the way for development, to pull up pots, effigies, offerings, and bones in accordance with the law. She said that there was so much sex and drinking that now it seemed like a dream, a hedonistic foray in the land of the dead.
She and her crew would dig by day, then go back to some cheap motel room. She said dead people were everywhere, remains of thousands of years of occupation the whole place was a graveyard. She had been working as a contract archaeologist documenting and clearing human remains and artifacts for a highway expansion across the Navajo reservation in northern New Mexico. An attractive woman with a penetrating gaze, she had her legs stretched out in the booth. But her face worried me, and I felt like I was interviewing a vampire. I said not to worry, that I'd just like to hear her story. When I asked if she'd talk to me about her work as an archaeologist, she told me she was an unreliable source. Her eyes looked tired, as if she had not slept in days. While it describes the scientific discipline itself, I also use the word to define the presence of archaeological material, e.g., "There was archaeology all over the place." It also refers to the larger arena surrounding artifacts, e.g., "Archaeology is one big stinking mess." I frequently use the word archaeology, which has different meanings based on context. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at Thank you for your support of the author's rights.Īll characters and names in this book are real but for Art and Betty Cooper, who requested anonymity to keep their collection safe.
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