9780195119466

Archaeologists

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780195119466

Hardcover|9780195119466


Overview

Including eccentric professors and adventuring fortune hunters of old and highly trained scientists of today, Archaeologists collects together biographies of more than 30 archaeologists of the past two centuries. In the process, Archaeologists presents an engaging portrait of how digging fortreasure evolved into the respected and vital science we know today. Some of the archaeologists profiled include:* Giovanni Belzoni, the 19th-century archaeologist who brought the head of Ramesses II back to England* Heinrich Schliemann, the modern discoverer of prehistoric Greece whose excavations included Mycenae and the ancient city of Troy* Howard Carter, who discovered King Tut's tomb* Mary and Louis Leakey, whose discovery of humanoid fossils placed human evolution's beginning in AfricaFrom the romance of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations to computers, tree ring dating, and numerous other scientific methods, Archaeologists is a fascinating look at the explorers of the human past.

ISBN-13

9780195119466

ISBN-10

0195119460

Weight

1.88 Pounds

Dimensions

11.10 x 0.60 x 8.50 In

List Price

$60.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

192 pages

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published On

2003-04-10



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