A gripping account of 200 years of archaeological research, excavation and thought, told through the life stories of 70 of the world's greatest pioneers and practitioners. Brian Fagan has assembled a team of some of the world's greatest living archaeologists to write knowledgeably and entertainingly about their distinguished predecessors. Full of fascinating anecdotes, personal accounts and unexpected insights, this comprehensively illustrated book encompasses more than two centuries of research and excavation round the globe. Controversial figures such as Heinrich Schliemann of Troy fame, and…mehr
A gripping account of 200 years of archaeological research, excavation and thought, told through the life stories of 70 of the world's greatest pioneers and practitioners. Brian Fagan has assembled a team of some of the world's greatest living archaeologists to write knowledgeably and entertainingly about their distinguished predecessors. Full of fascinating anecdotes, personal accounts and unexpected insights, this comprehensively illustrated book encompasses more than two centuries of research and excavation round the globe. Controversial figures such as Heinrich Schliemann of Troy fame, and Aurel Stein, plunderer of ancient manuscripts from Central Asia, are reassessed. Little-known pioneers - for example, Max Uhle in Peru and Li Chi in China - are set beside the giants in the field: Lepsius, Mariette and Carter in Egypt; Koldewey, Dörpfeld and Woolley in the Near East; Stephens and Catherwood, discoverers of the Maya of Mexico; and Louis and Mary Leakey, who transformed knowledge of our African ancestry. Other indomitable women here include Gertrude Bell, explorer of Arabia and Iraq, Kathleen Kenyon, the excavator of Jericho, and the script-decipherer Tatiana Proskouriakoff.
Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of forty-six books, including Ancient North America, Discovery! and The Complete Ice Age, as well as seven widely used undergraduate college texts. He is a contributing editor to American Archaeology and Discover Archaeology magazines, and formerly wrote a regular column for Archaeology magazine.
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Introduction: Searching for the Past 1. The Antiquity of Humankind William Stukeley 1687 1765: Blending Romance and Science Christian Jürgensen 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 2. 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 3. 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 Dörpfeld 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 1939 2001 & Richard Steffy 1924 2007: Underwater Archaeology as Science Ole Crumlin Pedersen 1935 2011: Recreating Viking Ships 4. Decipherers of Ancient Scripts Jean François Champollion 1790 1832: Breaking the Hieroglyphic Code Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 1810 95: Deciphering Cuneiform Michael Ventris 1922 56: Reading Linear B Tablets as Greek Eric Thompson 1898 1975, Tatiana Proskouriakoff 1909 85 & Yuri Knorosov 1922 99: Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs 5. 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 Origins in Africa Kathleen Kenyon 1906 78: Excavating Jericho Grahame Clark 1907 95: European and World Prehistory Robert Braidwood 1907 2003: Early Farming in the Near East Hannah 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 6. 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 André 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
Introduction: Searching for the Past 1. The Antiquity of Humankind William Stukeley 1687 1765: Blending Romance and Science Christian Jürgensen 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 2. 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 3. 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 Dörpfeld 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 1939 2001 & Richard Steffy 1924 2007: Underwater Archaeology as Science Ole Crumlin Pedersen 1935 2011: Recreating Viking Ships 4. Decipherers of Ancient Scripts Jean François Champollion 1790 1832: Breaking the Hieroglyphic Code Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 1810 95: Deciphering Cuneiform Michael Ventris 1922 56: Reading Linear B Tablets as Greek Eric Thompson 1898 1975, Tatiana Proskouriakoff 1909 85 & Yuri Knorosov 1922 99: Decoding Maya Hieroglyphs 5. 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 Origins in Africa Kathleen Kenyon 1906 78: Excavating Jericho Grahame Clark 1907 95: European and World Prehistory Robert Braidwood 1907 2003: Early Farming in the Near East Hannah 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 6. 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 André 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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