E ric H. C line . Digging Up Armageddon

Archaeology is done on site by people who very often have complex stories to tell. As they come together to work in close and isolated confines—sometimes for months and years on end—there will inevitably be personal and professional conflict. But they will also uncover wonderful finds that help fill in the blanks and answer questions about the histories of sites that have long drawn public interest. In Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon, Eric H. Cline, an archaeologist who has worked on the site of Megiddo every other summer for twenty years, presents the first historiographical intervention about the stories of early American-led excavations at Megiddo and the people involved. The excavations that are the focus of this book began with Rockefeller money in 1925, as was the case with most things Egyptologist James Henry Breasted did, and ended as that money ran out...

Archaeology · Cline (biology) · Digging · Excavation · Historiography · Population · Sociology · Demography · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies