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That's "digging up" understood more or less literally, is it? Novels in which revelations about the past have some impact on the narrative "present" are, after all, not that terribly rare ...
Might want to add Andre Norton's Beast Master. Several of Norton's novels are about archaeological expeditions, but one of the main characters in Beast Master is an archaeologist.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "The Source
