Brian M. Fagan

1936 -

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Pembroke College, Rugby School

occupation: anthropologist, archaeologist, university teacher, curator

Brian Murray Fagan (born 1 August 1936) is a prolific British author of popular archaeology books and a professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Source: Wikipedia (en)

Series

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Works 28

The Adventure of Archaeology
The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World
The great journey : the peopling of ancient America
Snapshots of the past
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
Clash of Cultures
La grande histoire de ce que nous devons aux animaux
From Stonehenge to Samarkand
Grahame Clark
Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade
From black land to fifth sun : the science of sacred sites
Elixir : a human history of water
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
Before California
Ancient North America
Floods, Famines and Emperors
Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries
Archaeology : a brief introduction
People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory
People of the Earth : an introduction to world prehistory
People of the Earth
Chaco Canyon
People of the earth : an introduction to world prehistory
Ancient North America
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
Archaeologists
The Rape of the Nile
The rape of the Nile: Tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt

Articles 61

Prehistoric Cultures of North East Angola and their Significance in Tropical Africa by J. Desmond Clark. Publicacoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 1963. 2 vols., 222 pp., 80 pls., 36 figs. No price stated
Early Iron Age Pottery in Eastern and Southern Africa
Archaeology: An Introduction
Ivuna: Ancient Salt-Working in Southern Tanzania
Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson (eds.): The Oxford History of South Africa. Vol. 1: South Africa to 1870. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 502 pp., 3 pls., 7 maps, 6 tables. 75s
A. J. Bruwer: Zimbabwe: Rhodesia's Ancient Greatness. Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland, 1965. 152 pp., 74 illustrations (including 1 colour pl.). 42s. (£2.10)
J. Desmond Clark: The prehistory of Africa. (Vol. 72 in the Ancient Peoples and Places series.) London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. 302 pp., 48 pls., 62 figs., 10 maps. £2.50
P. L. Shinnie (ed.): The African Iron Age. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971. 381 pp., 8 pls., 21 figs., 12 maps. £3•00
Papyrus and Tablet
Egypt (Monuments of Civilization)
The Rescue of Emin Pasha: The Story of Henry M. Stanley and the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887–1889
Early Man: Prehistory and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Peter S. Garlake: Great Zimbabwe. London: Thames and Hudson, 1973. 224 pp., 113 pls., 29 figs. £4.75
David and Ruth Whitehouse: Archaeological atlas of the world. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. 272 pp. 103 maps. £5.75
L. S. B. Leakey: By the evidence. London and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 276 pp., 12 pls, 1 map. £2.95
Auguste Mariette and Verdi’s Aïda
Preface
Genesis I.1; Or, Teaching Archaeology to the Great Archaeology-Loving Public
Grahame Clark: World Prehistory in new perspective. Cambridge: University Press, 1977 (3rd ed.) 574 pp., 305 figs., 31 tables. £16.00. (cloth), £5.95 (paper)
Gundu and Ndonde, Basanga and Mwanamaimpa
The Upper Palaeolithic of Britain. John B. Campbell. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977. 2 vols., 264 pp., 53 tables, 175 figs., 48 maps. £25.00
Robert J. Sharer & Wendy Ashmore: Fundamentals of archaeology. Menlo Park, California: Benjamin/Cummings, 1979. 614 pp., numerous pls. & figs. £12.00
Susan Keech McIntosh & Roderick J. McIntosh: Prehistoric excavations at Jenne, Mali. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 2. BAR International Series 89(ii). Oxford: BAR, 1980. 542 pp., numerous pls., figs., & maps. £20.00 (paper)
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
A hundred volumes of ‘A. P. & P.’
The Archaeology Workbook. Steve Daniels and Nicholas David. The University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1982. xii +116 pp., illus. $9.95 (paper)
Donald K. Grayson: The establishment of human antiquity. New York: Academic Press, 1983. 262 pp., 22 figs. £19.20: $27.50
Lewis R. Binford: In pursuit of the past: decoding the archaeological record. London & New York: Thames & Hudson, 1983. 256 pp., profusely illustrated. £12.50; $16.50
Advances in World Archaeology, Vol 1. Fred Wendorf, and Angela E. Close. Academic Press, New York, 1982. xxx + 372 pp., abstracts, figures, tables, biblio., index. $37.50 (cloth)
Henry Cleere (ed.): Approaches to the archaeological heritage. Cambridge: University Press, 1984. 138 pp., 30 figs. £22.50
Mary Leakey: Disclosing the past. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. 224 pp., 48 figs. £12.95Richard Leakey: One life. Salem, New Hampshire: Salem House, 1984. 207 pp. 60 figs. $18.95
Linda Cordell: Prehistory of the Southwest. New York: Academic Press, 198 pp.; $49.00 (hardback); $25.00 (paperback)

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Author

Brian M. Fagan

Series

Works 28

The Adventure of Archaeology

The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World

The great journey : the peopling of ancient America

Snapshots of the past

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850

Clash of Cultures

La grande histoire de ce que nous devons aux animaux

From Stonehenge to Samarkand

Grahame Clark

Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade

From black land to fifth sun : the science of sacred sites

Elixir : a human history of water

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization

Before California

Ancient North America

Floods, Famines and Emperors

Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries

Archaeology : a brief introduction

People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory

People of the Earth : an introduction to world prehistory

People of the Earth

Chaco Canyon

People of the earth : an introduction to world prehistory

Ancient North America

The Oxford Companion to Archaeology

Archaeologists

The Rape of the Nile

The rape of the Nile: Tomb robbers, tourists, and archaeologists in Egypt

Articles 61

Prehistoric Cultures of North East Angola and their Significance in Tropical Africa by J. Desmond Clark. Publicacoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, 1963. 2 vols., 222 pp., 80 pls., 36 figs. No price stated

Early Iron Age Pottery in Eastern and Southern Africa

Archaeology: An Introduction

Ivuna: Ancient Salt-Working in Southern Tanzania

Monica Wilson and Leonard Thompson (eds.): The Oxford History of South Africa. Vol. 1: South Africa to 1870. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 502 pp., 3 pls., 7 maps, 6 tables. 75s

A. J. Bruwer: Zimbabwe: Rhodesia's Ancient Greatness. Johannesburg: Hugh Keartland, 1965. 152 pp., 74 illustrations (including 1 colour pl.). 42s. (£2.10)

J. Desmond Clark: The prehistory of Africa. (Vol. 72 in the Ancient Peoples and Places series.) London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. 302 pp., 48 pls., 62 figs., 10 maps. £2.50

P. L. Shinnie (ed.): The African Iron Age. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971. 381 pp., 8 pls., 21 figs., 12 maps. £3•00

Papyrus and Tablet

Egypt (Monuments of Civilization)

The Rescue of Emin Pasha: The Story of Henry M. Stanley and the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887–1889

Early Man: Prehistory and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East

Peter S. Garlake: Great Zimbabwe. London: Thames and Hudson, 1973. 224 pp., 113 pls., 29 figs. £4.75

David and Ruth Whitehouse: Archaeological atlas of the world. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975. 272 pp. 103 maps. £5.75

L. S. B. Leakey: By the evidence. London and New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 276 pp., 12 pls, 1 map. £2.95

Auguste Mariette and Verdi’s Aïda

Preface

Genesis I.1; Or, Teaching Archaeology to the Great Archaeology-Loving Public

Grahame Clark: World Prehistory in new perspective. Cambridge: University Press, 1977 (3rd ed.) 574 pp., 305 figs., 31 tables. £16.00. (cloth), £5.95 (paper)

Gundu and Ndonde, Basanga and Mwanamaimpa

The Upper Palaeolithic of Britain. John B. Campbell. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977. 2 vols., 264 pp., 53 tables, 175 figs., 48 maps. £25.00

Robert J. Sharer & Wendy Ashmore: Fundamentals of archaeology. Menlo Park, California: Benjamin/Cummings, 1979. 614 pp., numerous pls. & figs. £12.00

Susan Keech McIntosh & Roderick J. McIntosh: Prehistoric excavations at Jenne, Mali. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 2. BAR International Series 89(ii). Oxford: BAR, 1980. 542 pp., numerous pls., figs., & maps. £20.00 (paper)

Sir Mortimer Wheeler

A hundred volumes of ‘A. P. & P.’

The Archaeology Workbook. Steve Daniels and Nicholas David. The University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1982. xii +116 pp., illus. $9.95 (paper)

Donald K. Grayson: The establishment of human antiquity. New York: Academic Press, 1983. 262 pp., 22 figs. £19.20: $27.50

Lewis R. Binford: In pursuit of the past: decoding the archaeological record. London & New York: Thames & Hudson, 1983. 256 pp., profusely illustrated. £12.50; $16.50

Advances in World Archaeology, Vol 1. Fred Wendorf, and Angela E. Close. Academic Press, New York, 1982. xxx + 372 pp., abstracts, figures, tables, biblio., index. $37.50 (cloth)

Henry Cleere (ed.): Approaches to the archaeological heritage. Cambridge: University Press, 1984. 138 pp., 30 figs. £22.50

Mary Leakey: Disclosing the past. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. 224 pp., 48 figs. £12.95Richard Leakey: One life. Salem, New Hampshire: Salem House, 1984. 207 pp. 60 figs. $18.95

Linda Cordell: Prehistory of the Southwest. New York: Academic Press, 198 pp.; $49.00 (hardback); $25.00 (paperback)