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The Boomer archaeologist : a graphic memoir of tribes, identity, and the Holy Land / Thomas Evan Levy ; illustrated by Lily Almeida ; designed by Bhaveshkumar Suru.
Penn Museum Library CC115.L48 A3 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levy, Thomas Evan, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeologists--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Archaeologists.
- Jews--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Jews.
- Archaeology--Middle East--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Archaeology.
- Levy, Thomas Evan--Comic books, strips, etc.
- Levy, Thomas Evan.
- Middle East.
- Genre:
- Comics (Graphic works)
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 382 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Graphic memoir of tribes, identity, and the Holy Land
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In this graphic memoir Thomas Evan Levy tells his life story, including 40 years of surveying, excavating and adventure in the deserts of the Holy Land, and then how to 'cool off' he got into marine archaeology. Throughout this story, tribes and identity play both a personal role and a focus of the author's research. This book is illustrated by Lily Almeida"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue. Rivers in the desert
- Early history of the Levy's : from Bialystock to Woodbine, NJ
- World War II with the U.S. 452nd Bomb Group : Howard I. Levy, serial no 13-097-882
- Post WWII California dreamin : 1950s in the San Fernando Valley
- 1960s : in the valley
- The late 1960s : discovering anthropology
- Road to anthropology : late 1960s-1970
- I am a Jew : a message to all minorities, 1969-1971
- Journey to the Holy Land : archaeology and kibbutz, 1971
- To the old Pueblo : discovering behavioral archaeology, 1973
- Sailing the wine-dark sea : Greece, 1973
- Yom Kippur War,1973
- Back to Tucson and back to home, 1974
- Licking my wounds in the valley, 1974
- The road to prehistory : final U of A days, 1975
- The full Monty : early days in Sheffield, 1976-1977
- Back to the Holy Land, 1977
- Copper Age Nirvana and dad's death, 1977
- The man in the desert museum : Bedouins, 1979-1985
- Marriage & Tribe, 1978-1979
- The People's Army : IDF, 1984-1992
- East Jerusalem and the W.F. Albright Institute, 1985-1987
- West Jerusalem and the Nelson Glueck School for Biblical Archaeology, 1987-1992
- Beautiful boys : Ben and Gil, 1988
- Warring chiefdoms from the banks of the Wadi Beersheva, 1987-1993
- The archaeology of cult 1987, 1990-1992
- Terror in Baka, 1990
- From ethnoarchaeology in Cameroon to the Gulf War
- The golden Medina, 1992
- Earliest Egyptian colonization in Canaan, Nahal Tillah, 1994-1996
- Crossing Jordan, 1997 : Jordan-Israel peace treaty, October 26th 1994
- Archaeometallurgy & cyber archaeology in Jordan, 1999
- Ethnoarchaeology in India, 2004-2007
- Quest for Solomon's mines, 2002-2014
- At-risk World Heritage and the Oracle at Delphi
- Underwater archaeology in Israel
- The collapse of civilizations
- Epilogue. Gratitude.
- Other Format:
- Online version Levy, Thomas Evan Boomer archaeologist
- ISBN:
- 9781800506954
- 1800506953
- OCLC:
- 1512959026
- Publisher Number:
- 90102451416
- CIPO000253131
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