Death by Theory

This is a textbook in the form of a novel. Readers are taught archaeological theory through the novel, as they attempt to solve the mystery of the Washington Venus. When a large stone Venus is found on an island in the Pacific Northwest archaeologist, Hannah Green and her nephew, Sean, find themselves tangled in a web of competing interests. The pair have to confront questions of archaeological evidence, of ethics, of conflicting interpretation of data, and the nature of archaeological truths.