The Great Archaeologists

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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 The Antiquity of Humankid * Discoverers of Ancient Civilizations * The Art of Excavation * Decipherers of Ancient Scripts * Discovering World Prehistory * Thinking about the Past * Maps * Contributors * Further Reading * Sources of Illustrations * Index