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