Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries - Hardcover
Which of those unique moments of discovery do you most treasure, or envy? In this book Fagan has gathered together fifty-five first-hand accounts of some of those seminal experiences including the discovery of Lucy, Carter and Tutankhamen, Wooley at Ur, the Aegina marbles, Tollund man, John Lloyd Stephens discovering the Maya .... A huge range of excavations and excavators described in their own evocative prose.
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Brian M. Fagan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is internationally known for his books on archaeology, among them The Adventure of Archaeology and The Rape of the Nile, and as a columnist for Archaeology magazine.
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Brian M. Fagan is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is internationally known for his books on archaeology, among them The Adventure of Archaeology and The Rape of the Nile, and as a columnist for Archaeology magazine.
"This volume will awaken interest in rediscovery of the past or feed the curiosity of those already hooked."--Paul Wallich, Scientific American
"In this collection, [Fagan] features pieces notable for their vividness in expressing, above all, that moment of Eureka!... But this editor's touch is unabashedly popular; as impresario he has booked some of the more entertaining acts in the biz."--Booklist
"In this collection, [Fagan] features pieces notable for their vividness in expressing, above all, that moment of Eureka!... But this editor's touch is unabashedly popular; as impresario he has booked some of the more entertaining acts in the biz."--Booklist
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0195081412
- ISBN 13 9780195081411
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- Number of pages512
- EditorFagan Brian M.
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