Brian Fagan

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Brian Murray Fagan (born August 1, 1936 in England) is a former professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the USA .

Life

Brian Fagan studied archeology and anthropology at Pembroke College , Cambridge . He did research in Central and East Africa and worked from 1959 to 1964 at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia , what was then Northern Rhodesia . He then headed the Bantu Studies Project at the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi , but after a year he took up a position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . In 1967 he took over the professorship for anthropology at the University of California, which he held until his retirement. He became known to a wide audience through popular science books on the early history of mankind .

His book Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants received the 2004 Book Award from the Society for American Archeology .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization (2004) ISBN 0-465-02281-2 , an adaptation of the two previously published books
    • The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
    • Floods, Famines, and Emperors
  • Ancient Civilizations. New York: Prentice Hall, 2002 (with Chris Scarre )
  • The Great Journey .
  • The Adventure of Archeology , National Geographic, Washington DC, USA 1985, ISBN 0-870446037 .
  • Time Detectives: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Recapture the Past (1995)
  • The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt
  • Africa in the Iron Age (together with Roland A. Oliver )
  • Ancient North America . London and New York, Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1991, ISBN 0-500-27606-4 (also German: The early North America - Archeology of a continent , translated by Wolfgang Müller, Verlag CH Beck Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37245- 7 )
  • Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brian M. Fagan on www.buchpreis-suche.de
  2. ^ Book Award , website of the Society for American Archeology
personal data
SURNAME Fagan, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fagan, Brian Murray (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH England