Brian Murray Fagan is an author of popular archaeology books as well as being emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Emeritus (IPA pronunciation: or ) is an adjective that is used in the title of a retired professor, bishop or other professional. ... A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Initiation rite of the Yao people of Malawi Anthropology (from the Greek word , man or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ... The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a coeducational public university located on the Pacific Ocean in Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It is one out of 10 campuses of the University of California. ...

Selected Bibliography

• The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975 (hardcover, ISBN 0-684-14235-X); Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004 (revised and updated ed., paperback, ISBN 0-8133-4061-6).
• Quest for the Past: Great Discoveries in Archaeology. Boston: Addison Wesley, 1978 (paperback, ISBN 0-201-03111-6).
• Clash of Cultures. New York: W.H. Freeman & Company, 1984 (paperback, ISBN 0-7167-1622-4); Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 1997 (hardcover, ISBN 0-7619-9146-8; paperback, ISBN 0-7619-9145-X).
• The Adventure of Archaeology. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1985 (hardcover, ISBN 0-87044-603-7)
• The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America. London: Thames & Hudson, 1987 (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05045-7); 1989 (paperback, ISBN 0-500-27515-7); Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004 (updated ed., paperback, ISBN 0-8130-2756-X).
• Journey from Eden: The Peopling of Our World. London: Thames & Hudson, 1991 (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05057-0).
• Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade: The Americas Before Columbus. London: Thames & Hudson, 1991 (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05062-7).
• Snapshots of the Past. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 1995 (hardcover, ISBN 0-7619-9109-3; paperback, ISBN 0-7619-9108-5).
• Time Detectives: How Archaeologist Use Technology to Recapture the Past. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995 (hardcover, ISBN 0-671-79385-3; paperback, ISBN 0-684-81828-0).
• (editor) The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 1996 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-507618-4).
• (editor) Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 1997 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-508141-2); 1999 (paperback, ISBN 0-19-512651-3).
• Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations. New York: Basic Books, 1999 (hardcover, ISBN 0-465-01120-9); 2000 (paperback, ISBN 0-465-01121-7); London: Pimlico, 2001 (new ed., paperback, ISBN 0-7126-6478-5)
• (editor) The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World: Unlocking the Secrets of Past Civilizations. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001 (paperback, ISBN 0-500-51050-4).
• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850. New York: Basic Books, 2000 (hardcover, ISBN 0-465-02271-5); 2001 (paperback, ISBN 0-465-02272-3).
• Stonehenge. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 2002 (ISBN 0-19-514314-0).
• Archaeologists: Explorers of the Human Past. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 2003 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-511946-0).
• Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 (paperback, ISBN 0-7425-2794-8); AltaMira Press, 2004 (new ed., paperback, ISBN 0-7591-0374-7).
• Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001 (hardcover, ISBN 0-8133-3602-3); 2003 (paperback, ISBN 0-8133-4113-2).
• The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books, 2003 (hardcover, ISBN 0-465-02281-2); 2004 (paperback, ISBN 0-465-02282-0).
• A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004 (paperback, ISBN 0-13-177698-3).
• (editor) The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004 ((hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05130-5).
• Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 2005 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-517043-1).
• Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories About the Past. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2005 (hardcover, ISBN 1-59874-004-0; paperback ISBN 1-59874-005-9).
• From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 2006 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-516091-6).
• Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, And Discovery of the New World. New York: Basic Books, 2007 (hardcover, ISBN 0-465-02284-7; paperback, ISBN 0-465-02285-5).

Further reading

• Fagan, Brian. "Retrospect (But certainly not a necrology!)", Antiquity, Vol. 78, Issue 299. (2004), pp. 173–183.

External links

• Brian Murray Fagan at the Emuseum of the Minnesota State University, Mankato
• Course syllabus for an Anthropology course taught by Brian Fagan.
• Interview with Brian Fagan at the Society for California Archaeology.
• Brian Fagan books online.