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

In Eyewitness To Discovery, Brian M. Fagan Gathers Together 55 Vivid Accounts Of The World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries, From The Tomb Of Tutankhamun And The Aegean Marbles To Otzi The Iceman And Macchu Picchu, Told By The People Who Discovered Them. The Selections Chronicle The Development Of The Field, From The Early 1700s When Archaeology Was Little More Than A Lighthearted Treasure Hunt, To The Late Twentieth Century When Discoveries Often Come Not Only From Spectacular Excavations, But Also From The Screens Of Computers Or From The Analysis Of Pollen Grains Invisible To The Naked Eye. Fagan Provides Engaging, Informative Introductions To Each Selection, As Well As An Introduction To The Volume That Lays Out The History Of Archaeology. But The Heart Of The Book Is The Excitement Of The Discoveries Themselves. The Antiquity Of Humankind / Jacques Boucher De Perthes And John Evans -- Finding Beijing Man / J. Gunnar Andersson -- The Discovery Of Australopithecus / Raymond Arther Dart -- The Discovery Of Zinjanthropus Boisei / Mary Leakey And Louis Leakey -- Lucy / Donald Johanson -- The Cro-magnons / Edouard Lartet And Louis Lartet. Tomb Robber By The Nile / Giovanni Belzoni -- The Decipherment Of Egyptian Hieroglyphs / Jean François Champollion And Tomkyns Turner -- Assyrian Palaces At Nimrud / Austen Henry Layard -- Cracking Cuneiform's Code / Henry Cresswicke Rawlinson -- The Tomb Of Tutankhamun / Howard Carter -- The Nubian Kings Of Kerma / George Reisner -- Ukhaidir And Assur / Gertrude Bell -- The Royal Cemetery At Ur / Leonard Woolley. Excavating Under Jerusalem / Charles Warren -- The Discovery Of The Dead Sea Scrolls / John Allegro -- Digging Up Jericho / Kathleen Kenyon -- The Aegenia Marbles / Samuel Pepys Cockerell -- Homeric Troy / Heinrich Schliemann -- Minoan Civilization At The Palace Of Knossos / Arthur Evans -- A Bronze Age Town In Gournia, Crete / Mary Allesbrook And Harriet Boyd Hawes -- Earthquake At Kourion, Cyprus / David Soren And Jamie James. The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial / Charles Green -- The Horsemen Of Pazyryk / Sergei Rudenko -- The Discovery Of Tollund Man / Peter Glob -- Otzi The Ice Man / Konrad Spindler -- Great Zimbabwe / Carl Mauch -- The Oudepost Discovery / Carmel Schrire -- The Terracotta Army Of Emperor Shihuangdi / Arthur Cotterell -- Han Burials In China / Brian Fagan -- The Princess Of Khok Phanom Di, Thailand / Charles Higham -- Late Ice Age Hunters In Tasmania / Rhys Jones. A Paleo-indian Bison Kill / Joe Ben Wheat -- Ozette, Washington / Richard Daugherty And Ruth Kirk -- Tragedy At Utqiagvik, Alaska / Albert A. Denkin -- An African Cemetery In Manhatten / Spencer Harrington -- Exploring Maya Copán / John Lloyd Stephens -- Pascal's Tomb At Palenque, Mexico / Alberto Ruz -- The Murals Of Bonampak, Mexico / Karl Ruppert -- The Aztec Templo Mayor / Eduardo Matos Moctezuma -- Adventure At Macchu Picchu / Hiram Bingham -- The Lords Of Sipán / Walter Alva And Christopher Donnan. The First American Archaeologist / Thomas Jefferson -- Excavation, Victorian And Edwardian Style / Thomas Wright And J.c. Droop -- Revolutionizing Excavation / Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-rivers -- War Casualties At Thebes / Herbert Eustice Winlock -- Bridging Cultures At Carcemish / Leonard Woolley -- Tutankhamen's Wife / Mary Chubb. The Battle Of Maiden Castle / R.e. Mortimer Wheeler -- Foragers At Koster, Illinois / Stuart Struever -- The Underwater Exploration Of The Uluburun Ship / Cemal Pulak And Donald A. Frey -- Historical Archaeology : Martin's Hundred, Virginia / Ivor Noël Hume -- Rameses Ii's Sons / Douglas Preston. Edited By Brian M. Fagan. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.