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 Author Name: Brian M. Fagan
Title: Time Detectives: Archeology - Revealing the Mysteries
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: n/a
Type: Paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books 01/07/1996
ISBN Number: 0684818280 / 9780684818283
Seller ID: BAX000010
Fine in publisher's decorated wrappers. Available in our UK premises for prompt dispatch worldwide. From Publishers Weekly. This exhilarating mix of high adventure and serious scholarship explores how modern archeologists are using techniques like computer imaging, infrared photography and pollen analysis to reconstruct ancient cultures. Fagan (The Rape of the Nile), an archaeologist, describes Tiwanaku, a vanished city on Lake Titicaca's Bolivian shore (A.D. 5th-11th centuries), where Andean farmers used crop cultivation methods that are now being copied by modern villagers to increase yields. He visits enigmatic Flag Fen in eastern England, where an enormous Bronze Age timber platform rose amid uninhabited wetlands, the site of sacrificial offerings. He combs Wadi Kubbaniya, an obscure Egyptian valley, home to hunter-gatherers 10,000 years before the pharaohs-possible ancestors of ancient Egyptian civilization. He explains how excavations of the mansions and gardens of 18th-century colonial Annapolis, Md., are revealing class divisions between a white elite and African Americans who comprised as much as one-third of the population. Fagan also explores multistory New Mexican pueblos of the Anasazi, a Sumerian temple complex, Blackfoot bison hunt sites on Canadian cliffs and remnants of the Natufian culture-some of the world's earliest farmers-discovered in the 1930s in what is now Israel. Illustrated. . Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. . . From Library Journal. In his latest book since Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade: The Americas Before Columbus (LJ 8/91), the author applauds post-World War II developments that have made archaeology a "high-technology science." He describes work done at a wide range of sites, from Stone Age Wadi Kubbaniya in southern Egypt to Colonial Annapolis, Maryland, and gives modern archaeologists the recognition they deserve for their interdisciplinary approach and meticulous methods of retrieving information. Unfortunately, Fagan diminishes 19th-century archaeology to a backdrop and makes it the object of negative comparisons. He refers to archaeologists of that period as "treasure hunters" and omits mention of the 19-century founder of scientific fieldwork, Sir William Flinders Petrie. To supplement his presentation, readers are advised to read C.W. Cerams's classic Gods, Graves, and Scholars (1967) before reading this book. For popular archaeology collections.. Joan Gartland, Detroit P.L.. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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