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Archaeologists : explorers of the human past / Brian Fagan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fagan, Brian M., author.
- Series:
- Oxford profiles.
- Oxford profiles
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--History.
- Archaeology.
- Archaeology--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Including eccentric professors and adventuring fortune hunters of old and highly trained scientists of today, Archaeologists collects together biographies of more than 30 archaeologists of the past two centuries. In the process, Archaeologists presents an engaging portrait of how digging for treasure evolved into the respected and vital science we know today.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Maps
- North America
- Central and South America
- Egypt and the Nile Valley
- Africa
- Great Britain
- Europe and North Africa
- Asia
- Southwest Asia
- Greece
- Part 1. Searching for Human Antiquity
- William Stukeley
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Christian Jurgensen Thomsen
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni
- John Evans
- Jacob Jens A. Worsaae
- More Archaeologists to Remember
- Part 2. Finding Lost Civilizations
- John Lloyd Stephens
- Austen Henry Layard
- Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
- Auguste Mariette
- Charles Warren
- Heinrich Schliemann
- Part 3. The Birth of Scientific Archaeology
- Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
- William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Gertrude Bell
- Henri Breuil
- Howard Carter
- Arthur John Evans
- Harriet Boyd Hawes
- Alfred Vincent Kidder
- Oscar Montelius
- Sylvanus Griswold Morley
- Aurel Stein
- Leonard Woolley
- Vere Gordon Childe
- Part 4. Great Fieldworkers
- Gertrude Caton-Thompson
- Dorothy Garrod
- Kathleen Kenyon
- Mortimer Wheeler
- Louis and Mary Leakey
- Grahame Clark
- John Desmond Clark
- Gordon R. Willey
- Part 5. Team Players
- Some Prominent Archaeologists of Our Time
- Major Events in the History of Archaeology
- Major Events in Prehistoric Times
- Glossary of Archaeological Sites and Terms
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- Y
- Z
- Further Reading and Websites
- Index
- Q
- W
- Z.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-802807-5
- 1-280-60300-3
- 1-4237-7429-9
- OCLC:
- 1027159197
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