Lives in ruins : archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble

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Label

Lives in ruins : archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble

Title remainder

archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble

Statement of responsibility

Marilyn Johnson

Creator

• Johnson, Marilyn, 1954-

Author

• Johnson, Marilyn, 1954-

Subject

• Archaeologists -- Anecdotes
• Archaeology -- Anecdotes

Genre

• Anecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

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 women 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

930.1

Index

index present

LC call number

CC175

LC item number

.J64 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography