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

Lives in ruins : archaeologists and the seductive lure of human rubble / Marilyn Johnson.

Johnson, Marilyn, 1954- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780062127181
  • Physical Description: x, 274 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2014]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references an index.
Summary, etc.:
A look at 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. From amazon.com.

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Subject: Archaeologists > Anecdotes.
Archaeology > Anecdotes.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

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Main 930.1092 J635L (Text) 31307025747108 Non Fiction Available -

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