Lives in ruins

archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble

274 pages

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-06-212718-1
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OCLC Number:
893974336

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Examines "the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past. Johnson digs and drinks alongside archaeologists, chases them through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu Picchu, and excavates their lives. Her subjects share stories we rarely read in history books, about slaves and Ice Age hunters, ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution, children of the first century, Chinese woman warriors, sunken fleets, mummies. What drives these archaeologists is not the money (meager) or the jobs (scarce) or the working conditions (dangerous), but their passion for the stories that would otherwise be buried and lost"--Amazon.com.

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Subjects

  • Archaeologists
  • Archaeology
  • Anecdotes