Great Excavations: John Romer's History of Archaeology - Hardcover

Romer, John

 
9780304355631: Great Excavations: John Romer's History of Archaeology
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0304355631 ISBN 13: 9780304355631
Verlag: Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Most believed it had begun when God placed Adam & Eve, fully formed, into the Garden of Eden. Archaeology changed all that. Besides revealing to us the treasures, tombs and cities of previously unimagined peoples, it has given us five million years of ancestors, transformed our ideas of who we are and where we come from, and has outlined our relationship with all other life on this planet. In Great Excavations, John Romer traces the history of archaeology from its inception in eighteenth-century Pompeii to the present day. He looks at the scientific advances made by key figures; tells the extraordinary stories of the personalities of archaeology s pioneers, scientists, adventurers and dreamers; deals with the big questions that continue to occupy archaeologists today; and examines how governments have used archaeology for their own political ends. This is a fascinating book, lavishly illustrated, that allows the world of archaeology to leap from the page straight into our imagination.

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John Romer is a graduate of the Royal College of Art. He began work in archaeology on the University of Chicago's epigraphic survey at Thebes in Upper Egypt. For the last 25 years he has alternated professional archaeology and conservation with writing books and TV series, which he also presents to critical acclaim. This is his fourth series. John Romer lives and works around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East. He has a house in Tuscany with his wife, the author Elizabeth Romer, who is responsible for many photographs in this book.

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Verlag
Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0304355631
ISBN 13 
9780304355631
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1
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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