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Digging the Dirt

By Jennifer Wallace

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Digging the Dirt

By Jennifer Wallace

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When Jennifer Wallace travelled round Greece as a student, hiking through olive groves to hunt out the stones of old temples and lost cities, she became fascinated by archaeology. It was magical. It was absurd. Give an archaeologist a few rocks and, like a master storyteller, he could bring another world to life. Give him a vague hunch about the past, and he was prepared to spend hours raking through the soil in search of proof. From the plain of Troy to the Titanic, and from Britain's Stonehenge to Ground Zero in New York, Digging the Dirt explores the excavation sites that have exerted the strongest pull on the public imagination. Some sites, in which bones are indistinguishable from dust, have driven archaeologists to despair. Other sites haunt poets with memories of loss and romance. All reveal the relevance of archaeology to our deepest cultural anxieties. Passionate and intelligent, Digging the Dirt engages with the work of philosophers and writers who have been stirred by the life below the ground, while never losing sight of the pressing demands of archaeologists today.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
230
Release Date:
2004-06-25
Publication Date:
2004-06-25
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0715632787
ISBN13:
9780715632789
Weight:
357 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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