SALT LAKE CITY?A Utah landowner wants to sell off the artifacts in an ancient Anasazi ruin, infuriating some archaeologists who say there’s no way to put a price on the relics.

For $2,500 per day, souvenir hunters and aspiring archaeologists can spend the day digging at 1,000-year-old Montezuma Village in San Juan County, keeping whatever they find. It’s not illegal, because the state’s antiquities preservation law doesn’t apply to private land.

“It’s the most sickening thing I have ever run across,” said Ray Matheny, a professor of anthropology at Brigham Young University who studied the site 40 years ago. “It’s plundering the past in the worst way.”