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    The great archaeologists / edited by Brian Fagan.

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    • Title:The great archaeologists / edited by Brian Fagan.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Fagan, Brian M., editor.
    • Published/Created:New York, New York : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2014.
      ©2014

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Archaeologists.
      Archaeologists--Biography.
      Archaeology--History.
      Antiques.
    • Genre/Form: Biographies.
      History.
    • Description:304 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm
    • Summary:Organized into six thematic sections, this book gives short, vivid biographies and fresh assessments of the achievements of 70 of the worlds greatest practitioners, written by a 40-strong team of contributors, themselves all eminent archaeologists and authors. Brian Fagan has assembled a team of some of the world's greatest living archaeologists to write knowledgeably and entertainingly about their distinguished predecessors in this handsome volume, full of fascinating anecdotes, personal accounts, and unexpected insights. All these archaeologists very different individuals, and often in deep disagreement with one another have established the subject as a scientific discipline and vastly broadened and deepened our knowledge of the human past. Authoritative and entertaining, this is a book for anyone fascinated by the human past and its discovery.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780500051818 (hardback)
      050005181X (hardback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: Searching for the Past
      Antiquity of Humankind
      Blending Romance and Science / William Stukeley
      Three Age System / Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
      Humanity's High Antiquity / Jacques Boucher de Perthes
      Classifying Human Cultural Evolution / Gabriel de Mortillet
      Developing Accurate Chronologies / Oscar Montelius
      Finding the Earliest Art / Henri Breuil
      Discoverers of Ancient Civilizations
      Father of Classical Archaeology / Johann Joachim Winckelmann
      Exploring Ancient Egypt / Giovanni Battista Belzoni
      Documenting the Pharaohs / Karl Richard Lepsius
      Protecting Egypt's Heritage / Auguste Mariette
      Revealing Maya Civilization / Frederick Catherwood
      Nimrud, Nineveh and Babylon / Austen Henry Layard
      Searching for Homer's World / Sophia Schliemann
      Exploring Maya Cities / Alfred Maudslay
      Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon / Robert Koldewey
      Excavator of Minoan Knossos / Arthur Evans
      Explorer of the Peruvian Past / Max Uhle
      Archaeology and Adventure in Central Asia / Aurel Stein
      Desert Traveller in Arabia and Iraq / Gertrude Bell
      Finding Tutankhamun / Howard Carter
      Indus Civilization Revealed / John Marshall
      Unearthing Precolumbian Mexico / Ignacio Bernal
      Discoverer of the Olmecs / Matthew Stirling
      Great Zimbabwe and the African Past / Gertrude Caton-Thompson
      Art of Excavation
      Excavating and Preserving Pompeii / Amedeo Maiuri
      Pioneer of Archaeological Excavation / Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers
      Excavating and Dating Ancient Egypt / William Matthew Flinders Petrie
      Scientific Excavation at Troy / Wilhelm Dorpfeld
      Excavator of Ur / Leonard Woolley
      American Southwest / Alfred Kidder
      Maestros of Archaeological Excavation / Philip Barker
      Father of `Biblical Archaeology' / William Foxwell Albright
      Santorini: Akrotiri from beneath the Ashes / Spyridon Marinatos
      Underwater Archaeology as Science / Richard Steffy
      Recreating Viking Ships / Ole Crumlin-Pedersen
      Decipherers of Ancient Scripts
      Breaking the Hieroglyphic Code / Jean-Francois Champollion
      Deciphering Cuneiform / Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
      Reading Linear B Tablets as Greek / Michael Ventris
      Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs / Yuri Knorosov
      Discovering World Prehistory
      Father of Peruvian Archaeology / Julio Tello
      Mount Carmel and Cro-Magnons / Dorothy Garrod
      First Chinese Dynasties and Early Humans in East Asia / Pei Wenzhong
      Early Technology and Neanderthals in Russia / Sergey Semenov
      Human Origins in Africa / Mary Leakey
      Excavating Jericho / Kathleen Kenyon
      European and World Prehistory / Grahame Clark
      Early Farming in the Near East / Robert Braidwood
      Female Pioneers in North American Archaeology / Cynthia Irwin-Williams
      Archaeology of Eastern North America / James B. Griffin
      Archaeology of the Desert West / Jesse Jennings
      Consummate American Archaeologist / Gordon Willey
      Broad Canvas of African Prehistory / J. Desmond Clark
      Studying the Early Polynesians / Roger Green
      Thinking About the Past
      Revolutions in Prehistory / Vere Gordon Childe
      Ancient Europeans, Megaliths and the Wider Audience / Stuart Piggott
      How Humans Make their Worlds / Andre Lervi-Gourhan
      Pioneers of the `New Archaeology' / Lewis Binford
      Archaeology, Anthropology and Human Society / Bruce Trigger
      Culture and Environment in Mesoamerica / William T. Sanders.
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