Brian M. Fagan, Author . Basic $26 (338p) ISBN 978-0-465-02284-7
It was fish, not spices, that led to the discovery of North America," speculates anthropologist Fagan. From 1495 to 1525, he tells us, the monks at Westminster Abbey consumed almost 11,000 kilograms of fish per year. The sheer enormity of this...
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Brian M. Fagan, Author . Oxford Univ. $35 (291p) ISBN 978-0-19-516091-8
The archeology gets in the way of the writing in this uneven collection. People have been going to stare at ruins for a long time; anthropologist Fagan (The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
) excerpts Herodotus and 21st-century travel writer Tom...
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Brian M. Fagan, Author . Bloomsbury Press $26.95 (282p) ISBN 978-1-59691-392-9
Global warming is hardly new; in fact, the very long-term trend began about 12,000 years ago with the end of the Ice Age. Anthropologist Fagan (The Little Ice Age
) focuses on the medieval warming period (ca. 800-1300), which helped Europe produce...
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Brian M. Fagan, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-671-79385-2
This exhilarating mix of high adventure and serious scholarship explores how modern archeologists are using techniques like computer imaging, infrared photography and pollen analysis to reconstruct ancient cultures. Fagan (The Rape of the Nile), an...
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Brian M. Fagan, Author Perseus Books Group $26 (416p) ISBN 978-0-201-95991-8
The unearthing of cave paintings, stone circles, burial mounds, charnel houses, pyramids and the like poses fundamental questions about the relationships between extinct cultures and their perceived worlds. Archaeologist Fagan (The Rape of the Nile)
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Brian M. Fagan, Author Basic Books $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-465-02271-7
The role of climatic change in human history remains open to question, due in large part to scant data. Fagan, professor of archeology at UC Santa Barbara, contributes substantively to the increasingly urgent debate. Contending with the dearth of...
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Brian M. Fagan, Author Basic Books $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-465-02281-6
Anthropologist Fagan engagingly presents an abundance of geological and archaeological evidence supporting the idea that human civilization has been shaped by significant climate change to a greater extent than previously thought. As in his other...
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Brian Fagan, Bloomsbury, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-60819-003-4
Five thousand years of rising and falling civilizations flow through Fagan's sweeping survey of man's ability to harness water. From the stirrings of agricultural settlements in the Euphrates Valley to the canny manipulation that sent the Owens...
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