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Mar 10, 2009 · Brian Fagan was born in England and studied archaeology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum, Zambia, from 1959-1965. During six years in Zambia and one in East Africa, he was deeply involved in fieldwork on multidisciplinary African history and in monuments conservation.
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Brian Fagan was born in England and spent several years doing fieldwork in Africa. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many books including Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and the Discovery of the New World, and several books on climate history, including The Little Ice ...
Jun 1, 2011 · 240 ratings55 reviews. Elixir spans five millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia to the parched present of the Sun Belt. As Brian Fagan shows, every human society has been shaped by its relationship toour most essential resource. Fagan's sweeping narrative moves across the world, from ancient Greece and Rome, whose mighty aqueducts still supply ...
Sep 21, 2021 · Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani show in remarkable detail what it was like to battle our climate over centuries and offer us a path to a safer and healthier future. There are no customer reviews for this item yet.
SIDELIGHTS: Anthropologist and archaeologist Brian M. Fagan's writings include many that are geared towards broad audiences and that are understandable to nonspecialists. One such book is the 1996 publication The Oxford Companion to Archaeology , a collection of 700 articles by 350 scholars that covers a wide range of topics.
Oct 17, 2013 · Brian Fagan is one of the world’s leading archaeological writers and an internationally recognized authority on human prehistory. He studied archaeology and anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, and then spent seven years in sub-Saharan Africa working in museums and in monuments conservation and excavating early farming sites in Zambia and East Africa.
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Learn about the life and work of Brian Fagan, a renowned archaeologist and author of books on ancient climate and human history.
