Brian Fagan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 112486 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brian Fagan |
| PRENOMES | Brian |
| SOBRENOME | Fagan |
| ASSINATURA | FAGAN B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1961 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Val…
The dawn of everything
This 526-page discourse is a reasoned argument for rejecting the notion of steady progress in the human past that challenges our assumptions about the origins of many aspects of modern human behavior, including farming, property, cities, democracy, and slavery. The authors take an anarchic position. They conclude that since we have organized ourselves in many ways in the past, so there are other ways of organizing ourselves beyond the current dom…
What We Did in Bed
Fishing
Little History of Archaeology
The thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art. Archaeology is all of these, but also far more: the only science to encompass the entire span of human history—more than three million years! This Little History…
What We Did in Bed
Grahame Clark
The British archaeologist Grahame Clark was a seminal figure in European and world archaeology for more than half of the twentieth century, but, at the same time, one whose reputation has been outshone by other, more visible luminaries. His works were never aimed at a wide general public, nor did he become a television or radio personality. Clark was, above all, a scholar, whose contributions to world archaeology were enormous. He was also convin…
Grahame Clark
The Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe
Climate Change in Human History
"Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(5), pp. 137–138
Abundance
According to the introduction, abundance in this edited volume refers to the large numbers of particular objects found in archaeological sites, signifying their importance, whether for food, ornamentation, or utilitarian use. Abundance became a sign of ritual cohesion; it was not only a social marker but also a distinguishing feature of social stratification. The highest ranks in society displayed their power through largesse and iconography.The …
Fishing
Fishing
The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium
Pimentel’s book about a rhinoceros and a giant fossil sloth is an astute account of scientific imagination at work. Pimentel draws from a broad range of seamlessly integrated disciplines, ranging from biology and geology to archaeology and paleontology, to create an engrossing and meticulous historical analysis.In 1515, a rhinoceros named Ganda spent four months caged in a ship’s hold, sailing from Goa in India to Lisbon—a gift from an Indian sul…
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations and the great powers in the Near East, moving on to the first Aegean civil…
People of the Earth
Early Chinese Civilization
The Origins of Chinese Civilization By 4000 b.c., agriculture had taken such hold in China that population densities rose throughout the country (Liu, 2004; Stark, 2006). The farmers took more and more land into cultivation until there was little new acreage available for planting. Some pollen analyses from northern villages show how the trees that once surrounded many settlements were felled as the fields lapped right up to the houses. This popu…
People of the Earth
Ancient Civilizations
Drawing on many avenues of inquiry: archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and on both historical and ethnohistorical records; Ancient Civilizations, 3/e provides a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world's first civilizations and a brief summary of the way in which they were discovered
Artifact and Artifice
August 01 2014 Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historians Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historians. By Jonathan M.Hall (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2014) 258 pp. $45.00 Brian Fagan Brian Fagan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Brian Fagan Online ISSN: 1530-9169 Print ISSN: 0022-1953 © 2014 by The Massachusetts Inst…
Lewis Roberts Binford (1931-2011)
The Archaeology of the Gravel Terraces of the Upper and Middle Thames
Acquisitors among the Ottoman Monuments From the Harpy Tomb to the Wonders of Ephesus
Bruce Graham Trigger (1937-2006)
From Stonehenge to Samarkand
Ever since Roman tourists scratched graffiti on the pyramids and temples of Egypt over two thousand years ago, people have traveled far and wide seeking the great wonders of antiquity. In From Stonehenge to Samarkand, noted archaeologist and popular writer Brian Fagan offers an engaging historical account of our enduring love of ancient architecture--the irresistible impulse to visit strange lands in search of lost cities and forgotten monuments.…
The Greefswald Sequence
The Iron Age sites known as Mapungubwe and Bambandyanalo on the farm Greefswald, 55 miles west of Messina in the northern Transvaal, South Africa, have aroused world-wide speculation ever since their discovery in the early 1930s. This international interest has been considerably stimulated by the publication of the second volume of the Mapungubwe report in late 1963. Much unnecessary confusion as to the significance of The Mapungubwe and Bambandy…
The Distribution of Prehistoric Culture in Angola
Kibiro
The House of the Sea
The Chumash tomol, a sophisticated planked canoe, came into use in the Santa Barbara Channel region of Southern California about 1,500 years ago. It is often assumed that planked watercraft were first developed in the region at about that date. This paper argues, on theoretical grounds, that planked canoes were developed much earlier in Southern California, perhaps as early as 8,500 years ago
Pre-European Ironworking in Central Africa with Special Reference to Northern Rhodesia
Pre-European ironworkers in Central Africa reached a high standard of metallurgical skill, culminating in the production of beautiful ceremonial objects and instruments which show a Congo origin and inspiration. Many of these specimens, especially hoes, were traded over enormous distances. One can probably detect three phases of ironworking in Northern Rhodesia: (1) The Earliest Period ( c . a.d. 0 to ? a.d. 1000). Little is known about these ear…
Lewis Roberts Binford (1931-2011)
I, Too, Am American
Iron Technology in East Africa
Iron Technology in East Africa: Symbolism, Science, and Archaeology Peter Schmidt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. 328 pp
Elusive Treasure
The Iron Age of Zambia
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations in Eurasia and the Americas, from Egypt and the Sumerians to the Indus Val…
Ancient Civilizations
Ancient Civilizations offers a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world’s first civilizations and how they were discovered, drawing on many avenues of inquiry including archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and both historical and ethnohistorical records. This book covers the earliest civilizations and the great powers in the Near East, moving on to the first Aegean civil…
Ancient Civilizations
Drawing on many avenues of inquiry: archaeological excavations, surveys, laboratory work, highly specialized scientific investigations, and on both historical and ethnohistorical records; Ancient Civilizations, 3/e provides a comprehensive and straightforward account of the world's first civilizations and a brief summary of the way in which they were discovered
Grahame Clark
Education is what's left
In over 30 years of graduate and undergraduate teaching, I have taught everything from large introductory offerings with an audience of 300, to advanced undergraduate seminars, even a graduate course for two people on writing about archaeology. In all these years, I am struck by two constants: the general enthusiasm of my students for archaeology and their startling lack of ability to think for themselves and be intellectually self-reliant, somet…
Excavations at Harleigh Farm, near Rusape, Rhodesia, 1958-1962
The dawn of everything
This 526-page discourse is a reasoned argument for rejecting the notion of steady progress in the human past that challenges our assumptions about the origins of many aspects of modern human behavior, including farming, property, cities, democracy, and slavery. The authors take an anarchic position. They conclude that since we have organized ourselves in many ways in the past, so there are other ways of organizing ourselves beyond the current dom…
Retrospect (But certainly not a necrology)
Thus the sum of things is ever being renewed, and mortals live dependent one upon another...and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners hand on the torch of life
The Archaeological Process
Prelude to East African History
Two Soli Smelting Furnaces from Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia
Pre-European Ironworking in Central Africa with Special Reference to Northern Rhodesia
Pre-European ironworkers in Central Africa reached a high standard of metallurgical skill, culminating in the production of beautiful ceremonial objects and instruments which show a Congo origin and inspiration. Many of these specimens, especially hoes, were traded over enormous distances. One can probably detect three phases of ironworking in Northern Rhodesia: (1) The Earliest Period ( c . a.d. 0 to ? a.d. 1000). Little is known about these ear…
Two Soli Smelting Furnaces from Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia
The Greefswald Sequence
The Iron Age sites known as Mapungubwe and Bambandyanalo on the farm Greefswald, 55 miles west of Messina in the northern Transvaal, South Africa, have aroused world-wide speculation ever since their discovery in the early 1930s. This international interest has been considerably stimulated by the publication of the second volume of the Mapungubwe report in late 1963. Much unnecessary confusion as to the significance of The Mapungubwe and Bambandy…
The Prehistory of East Africa
Excavations at Harleigh Farm, near Rusape, Rhodesia, 1958-1962
A Bone Figurine From Kangila, Zambia
The Distribution of Prehistoric Culture in Angola
The Iron Age of Zambia
Prelude to East African History
Zimbabwe
Il y a un siecle que les ruines de Zimbabwe ont ete revelees aux Europeens. Depuis cette epoque, l'histoire de ce fameux monument africain a fait a diverses reprises l'objet de controverses. Certains ont ete jusqu'a en attribuer la construction a des peuples etrangers venus chercher de l'or au centre de l'Afrique. Des recherches plus poussees permettent de l'attribuer aux peuples africains qui avaient constitue un grand royaume commercial et reli…
A Preliminary Account of Majolica Sherds from the Chapel Site, Royal Spanish Presidio, Santa Barbara, California
The Santa Barbara Presidio represents a Spanish occupation in Alta California dating from 1782 to around 1850. Although stratigraphic controls for the recovered Majolica sherds were difficult to maintain due to the urban nature of the site, the collection does represent the decorative styles present at the presidio during the latest period of Spanish colonialism in North America
The Rape of the Nile
Elusive Treasure
The Presentation of Archaeological Evidence
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Parapublishing
A History of Archaeological Thought
Archaeology
Archaeology Yesterday & Today
Out of Africa
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The Origins of Agriculture
The illustrated history of humankind
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Interpreting Archaeology
Tropical Archaeobotany
Historical Ecology
Historical ecology - a multidimensional ecological orientation, Carole L. Crumley concepts in historical ecology - the view from evolutionary theory, Bruce P. Winterhalder tracking & testing the nature/culture dichotomy in practice, Alice E. Ingerson global climate & regional biocultural diversity, Joel D. Gunn historical ecology & landscape transformation in eastern Equatorial Africa, Peter R. Schmidt management for extinction in Norse Greenland…
Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values in Archaeology. Richard Layton
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