as a growing "aloofness" of some of his "scientific colleagues" in the field of archaeology. Today, Moorehead is often considered a "pillager" within the field of archaeology. In his early career, Moorehead typically used horses and scrapers to quickly remove dirt layers from ancient mounds, often obliterating important historical sites, working quickly recover artifacts during a brief summer season ranging across the state. While he improved his methodology throughout his career, his youthful work in Ohio left a mark on his reputation that has stuck; the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society quarterly reports he filed in the 1890s included indelible photographs of mounds being razed with the heavy equipment of that day. What is often overlooked is that in the narrative, Moorehead would encounter mounds already being taken down by county road crews and construction laborers, and would negotiate to allow an interval of investigation in the middle of the demolition before the project was completed. In his work after 1900, he and his field workers used the archaeological techniques then becoming standard in excavations. Also damaging to Moorehead's modern reputation was his support of the amateur and collector communities throughout his career. He believed that collection of artifacts was not necessarily a bad thing, and promoted good relations between professional archaeologists and collectors to the end of his life. But even in his younger days, Moorehead recorded in his diary personal regrets over past practices, and his hopes to be able to do better work in the future. Publications References Further reading Exploration of the Etowah Site, republished by University Press of Florida 2000 unpublished: 96 boxes of archival material at the Ohio Historical Society Moorehead, Warren K. The Cahokia Mounds, edited by John E. Kelly and republished by the University of Alabama Press, 2000 "The American Indian in the United States, Period 1850-1914" () "CAHOKIA -- The Great Native American Metropolis" by Biloine Whiting Young and Melvin L. Fowler, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS, 2000 () External links https://papeabody.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/etowah_007_small.jpg Neil Judd, Warren Moorehead, and Alfred Kidder (left to right) at Etowah, GA in 1927 Photographic portrait of Moorehead at www.texasbeyondhistory.net—Warren K. Moorehead People from Xenia, Ohio 1866 births 1939 deaths 19th-century American archaeologists 20th-century American archaeologists Denison University alumni People from Siena Cahokia