Biographies of Archaeologists and Related Scientists

Archaeologists do live interesting lives, at least some of us. Here's a collection of recent biographies to sink your teeth into; and some other historically interesting titles.

Amelia Earhart's Shoes
Written by members of TIGHAR Thomas F. King, Randall Jacobson, Karen Ramey Burns, and Kenton Spading, Amelia Earhart's Shoes reports new research on the 1937 disappearance of the famous woman aviator, including archaeology on an island in the republic of Kiribati.

Conversations with Lew Binford
Subtitled "Drafting the New Archaeology," this transcript of a conversation between Paula L. W. Sabloff and Lewis Binford, provides a unique glimpse into the skull of the fellow known as the Father of the New Archaeology.

Dead Men Do Tell Tales
A lurid memoir of 1930s adventure and mayhem by sometime archaeologist Count Byron Khun de Prorok, recently reprinted by the Narrative Press.

Digging through Darkness
Archaeologist Carmel Schrire describes and defines her career and experiences excavating in colonial period South Africa sites with a collection of uncomfortable stories.

Finding the Walls of Troy
In a book entitled Finding the Walls of Troy, Susan Heuck Allen describes the relationship between Heinrich Schliemann, who is broadly credited with the discovery of Troy, and Frank Calvert, who actually did find Troy, as symbiotic, nearly parasitic.

Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography
The prolific Brian Fagan's book "Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography" is a fascinating study of a complex character who had an enormous effect on the science of archaeology.

The Land of Prehistory
In her 1998 book, The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology, Alice Beck Kehoe, Professor of Anthropology at Marquette University, has written a most intriguing and controversial treatise.

The Life and Adventures of Adolph Bandelier
Archaeologist Adolph Bandelier's life was rich, fraught with disaster and success. The biography "Life and Adventures of Adolph Bandelier" feeds our appetites for a glimpse into his journals.

Warrior Women
Warrior Women is a fusion of archaeology and ethnography, mythology, and history, in a compelling report of Davis-Kimball's search for similar themes for women in Greece, Turkey, Ireland and China.

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