| Description |
304 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Discovering world prehistory. Julio Tello 1880-1947 : father of Peruvian archaeology ; Dorothy Garrod 1892-1968 : Mount Carmel and Cro-Magnons ; Li Chi 1896-1979 & Pei Wenzhong 1904-82 : the first Chinese dynasties and early humans in East Asia ; Alexey Okladnikov 1908-81 & Sergey Semenov 1898-1978 : early technology and Neanderthals in Russia ; Louis Leakey 1903-72 & Mary Leakey 1913-96 : human orogins in Africa ; Kathleen Kenyon 1906-78 : excavating Jericho ; Grahame Clark 1907-95 : European and world prehistory ; Robert Braidwood 1907-2003 : early farming n the Near East ; Hanna Marie Wormington 1914-94 & Cynthia Irwin-Williams 1936-90 : female pioneers in North American archaeology ; James B. Griffin 1905-97 : archaeology of eastern North America ; Jesse Jennings 1909-97 : archaeology of the desert West ; Gordon Willey 1913-2002 : the consummate American archaeologist ; J. Desmond Clark 1916-2002 : the broad canvas of African prehistory ; Roger Green 1932-2009 : studying the early Polynesians -- Thinking about the past. Vere Gordon Childe 1892-1957 : revolutions in prehistory ; Glyn Daniel 1914-86 & Stuart Piggott 1910-96 : ancient Europeans, megaliths and the wider audience ; Andre Leroi-Gourhan 1911-86 : how humans make their worlds ; David Clarke 1937-76 & Lewis Binford 1931-2011 : pioneers of the "new archaeology" ; Bruce Trigger 1937-2006 : archaeology, anthropology and human society ; William T. Sanders 1926-2008 : culture and environment in Mesoamerica |
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Searching for the past -- The antiquity of humankind. William Stukeley 1687-1765 : blanding romance and science ; Christian Jurgensen Thomsen 1788-1865 & Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae 1821-85 : the three age system ; Jacques Boucher de Perthes 1788-1868 : humanity's high antiquity ; Gabriel de Mortillet 1821-98 : classifying human cultural evolution ; Oscar Montelius 1843-1921 : developing accurate chronologies ; Sanz de Sautuola 1831-88 & Henri Breuil 1877-1961 : finding the earliest art -- Discoverers of ancient civilizations. Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717-68 : father of classical archaeology ; Giovanni Battista Belzoni 1778-1823 : exploring ancient Egypt ; Karl Richard Lepsius 1810-84 : documenting the pharaohs ; Auguste Mariette 1821-81 : protecting Egypt's heritage ; John Lloyd Stephens 1805-52 & Frederick Catherwood 1799-1854 : revealing Maya civilization ; Austen Henry Layard 1817-94 : Nimrud, Nineveh and Babylon ; Heinrich Schliemann 1822-90 & Sophia Schliemann 1852-1932 : searching for Homer's world ; Alfred Maudslay 1850-1931 : exploring Maya cities ; Robert Koldewey 1855-1925 : Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon ; Arthur Evans 1851-1941 : excavator of Minoan Knossos ; Max Uhle 1856-1944 : explorer of the Peruvian past ; Aurel Stein 1862-1943 : archaeology and adventure in Central Asia ; Gertrude Bell 1868-1926 : desert traveller in Arabia and Iraq ; Howard Carter 1874-1939 : finding Tutankhamun ; John Marshall 1876-1958 : Indus civilization revealed ; Alfonso Caso 1896-1970 & Ignacio Bernal 1910-92 : unearthing precolumbian Mexico ; Matthew Stirling 1896-1975 : discoverer of the Olmecs ; Gertrude Caton-Thompson 1888-1985 : Great Zimbabwe and the African past -- |
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The art of excavation. Giuseppe Fiorelli 1823-96 & Amedeo Maiuri 1886-1963 : excavating and preserving Pompeii ; Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers 1827-1900 : pioneer of archaeological excavation ; William Matthew Flinders Petrie 1853-1942 : excavating and dating ancient Egypt ; Wilhelm Dorpfeld 1853-1940 : scientific excavation at Troy ; Leonard Woolley 1880-1960 : excavator of Ur ; Alfred Kidder 1885-1963 : the American Southwest ; Mortimer Wheeler 1890-1976 & Philip Barker 1920-2001 : maestros of archaeological excavation ; William Foxwell Albright 1891-1971 : father of "biblical archaeology" ; Spyridon Marinatos 1901-74 : Santorini : Akrotiri from beneath the ashes ; Michael Katzev 1930-2001 & Richard Steffy 1924-2007 : underwater archaeology as science ; Ole Crumlin-Pedersen 1935-2011 : Recreating Viking ships -- Decipherers of ancient scripts. Jean-Francois Champollion 1790-1832 : breaking the hieroglyphic code ; Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 1810-95 : deciphering cuneiform ; Michael Ventris 1922-56 : reading linear B tablets as Greek ; Erick Thompson 1898-1975, Tatiana Proskouriakoff 1909-85 & Yuri Knorosov 1922-99 : decoding Maya hieroglyphs -- |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Antiquities Archaeological investigation, 1842-1975 Extracts from periodicals |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-298) and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Antiques.
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Archaeologists -- Biography.
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Archaeologists.
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Archaeology -- History -- Sources.
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Archaeology -- History -- Sources.
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Archaeology -- History.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Fagan, Brian M., editor
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Illustrated London News
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| LC no. |
77361586 |
| ISBN |
050005181X (hardback) |
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9780500051818 (hardback) |
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