Brian M. Fagan
Teoksen The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850 tekijä
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Brian Fagan is emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim fellow, he has written many internationally acclaimed, popular books about archaeology, including The Little Ice Age, The Great Warming, and The Lang Summer. He lives in Santa näytä lisää Barbara, California. näytä vähemmän
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(eng) The anthropology books and the sailing books were written by the same Brian Fagan.
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Tekijän teokset
Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries (1996) 259 kappaletta
The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated (1975) 257 kappaletta
Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans (2012) 169 kappaletta
The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World (The Complete Series) (2009) 64 kappaletta
The First North Americans: An Archaeological Journey (Ancient Peoples and Places) (2011) 40 kappaletta
The Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California: Golden Gate to Ensenada, Mexico, Including the Offshore Islands (2001) 11 kappaletta
Drinking at Disney: A Tipsy Travel Guide to Walt Disney World's Bars, Lounges & Glow Cubes (2016) 5 kappaletta
África Austral 2 kappaletta
One God, Two Goddesses, Three Studies of South Indian Cosmology (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture) (2013) 2 kappaletta
The Victoria Falls; a handbook to the Victoria Falls, the Batoka Gorge, and part of the Upper Zambesi River (1964) 2 kappaletta
Chartering Fundamentals: The Official American Sailing Association Guide to Chartering and Cruising for Pleasure (1987) 2 kappaletta
Cruising Guide to Southern California's Offshore Islands: With Sailing Directions for the Santa Barbara… (1992) 2 kappaletta
El gran viaje 1 kappale
Adventure of Archaeology, The 1 kappale
Uma Pequena História da Arqueologia 1 kappale
Alla scoperta degli imperi del sole 1 kappale
Sedmdesát velkých záhad 1 kappale
Associated Works
Archaeology: The Essential Guide to Our Human Past (2017) — Esipuhe, eräät painokset — 48 kappaletta
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- Virallinen nimi
- Fagan, Brian Murray
- Syntymäaika
- 1936-08-01
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
UK (birth) - Maa (karttaa varten)
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- England, UK
Zambia, Central Africa
Santa Barbara, California, USA - Koulutus
- Cambridge University (Pembroke College, archaeology | anthropology | BA | 1959 | MA | 1962 | PhD | 1965)
Rugby School - Ammatit
- university professor
archaeologist
curator - Organisaatiot
- University of California, Santa Barbara
Livingstone Museum, Zambia - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Society of Professional Archaeologists' Distinguished Service Award ( 1996 )
- Erotteluhuomautus
- The anthropology books and the sailing books were written by the same Brian Fagan.
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True name should've been History of Plumbing and Irrigation. Of which 2/3 of the book is dedicated to ancient civilizations. Too conversationalist for a thesis, but too detailed, specific and wearisome for a general audience non-fiction. The book is an unlucky cross between the two genres. Thus they only readership cohort for this book is graduate students and some geeks of the topic.
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Ah, found a book that resembles this one: www.goodreads.com/book/show/18497345-water-engineering-in-ancient-civilizations
Tellingly, it has virtually no readers. I for one was drawn to Elixir by Fagan's name. I wouldn't never have lifted "Water Engineering in Ancient Civilizations: 5,000 Years of History", it's Siamese twin...… (lisätietoja)
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Ah, found a book that resembles this one: www.goodreads.com/book/show/18497345-water-engineering-in-ancient-civilizations
Tellingly, it has virtually no readers. I for one was drawn to Elixir by Fagan's name. I wouldn't never have lifted "Water Engineering in Ancient Civilizations: 5,000 Years of History", it's Siamese twin...… (lisätietoja)
Interesting, but not quite what I thought it would be. Wouldn’t recommend. Oct 2010
Seems like an awful lot of ink to formulate just a few main ideas. Having endured to the end, I now know more about rising sea levels than I expected or desired.
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- It's roughly twenty years old and isn't really up-to-date on Neanderthals. More recent research contradicts the instructor's assertion that Home Sapiens Neanderthalensis and Homo Sapiens Sapiens could not interbreed. In fact, current DNA research indicates that all human races share some small percentage of Neanderthal genes (with the exception of sub-Saharan Africans, since Neanderthals developed outside of the African continent). Additionally, Neanderthals (despite this instructor's now-dated assertion) were in fact artistic and apparently had some form of spirituality.
- The instructor's assertion (and granted, he's an archaeologist, not a linguist) that Indo-Aryan more likely developed in India rather than being imported to the subcontinent by migrants is, to say the least, a minority view – one that I tend to associate with the Hindutva movement.
- His contrast between Brahmanism and Buddhism in India ignores the important role of folk religions, especially among pre-Aryan inhabitants of the subcontinent.
- Although this isn't entirely a "talking head" video and there are some illustrations, there could have been more.
- The close captioning is often sloppy, not coordinating well with the spoken word.
All told, 3***; and I'd recommend paging through the Great Courses library for more current versions of this topic.… (lisätietoja)