Lives in ruins
archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble
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Publication
2014 - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
68,500 words, Guess
Page Count
274 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27170937M
- ISBN-139780062127181
- ISBN-100062127187
- OCLC Control Number893974336
- OCLC Control Numberlivesinruinsarch0000john
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2014028450
Classifications
- DDC930.1
- LCCCC175 .J64 2014
Description
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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