The great archaeologists : with 201 illustrations, 188 in colour
(Book)

Searching for the past -- The antiquity of humankind. William Stukeley 1687-1765 : blanding romance and science ; Christian Jurgensen Thomsen 1788-1865 & Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae 1821-85 : the three age system ; Jacques Boucher de Perthes 1788-1868 : humanity's high antiquity ; Gabriel de Mortillet 1821-98 : classifying human cultural evolution ; Oscar Montelius 1843-1921 : developing accurate chronologies ; Sanz de Sautuola 1831-88 & Henri Breuil 1877-1961 : finding the earliest art -- Discoverers of ancient civilizations. Johann Joachim Winckelmann 1717-68 : father of classical archaeology ; Giovanni Battista Belzoni 1778-1823 : exploring ancient Egypt ; Karl Richard Lepsius 1810-84 : documenting the pharaohs ; Auguste Mariette 1821-81 : protecting Egypt's heritage ; John Lloyd Stephens 1805-52 & Frederick Catherwood 1799-1854 : revealing Maya civilization ; Austen Henry Layard 1817-94 : Nimrud, Nineveh and Babylon ; Heinrich Schliemann 1822-90 & Sophia Schliemann 1852-1932 : searching for Homer's world ; Alfred Maudslay 1850-1931 : exploring Maya cities ; Robert Koldewey 1855-1925 : Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon ; Arthur Evans 1851-1941 : excavator of Minoan Knossos ; Max Uhle 1856-1944 : explorer of the Peruvian past ; Aurel Stein 1862-1943 : archaeology and adventure in Central Asia ; Gertrude Bell 1868-1926 : desert traveller in Arabia and Iraq ; Howard Carter 1874-1939 : finding Tutankhamun ; John Marshall 1876-1958 : Indus civilization revealed ; Alfonso Caso 1896-1970 & Ignacio Bernal 1910-92 : unearthing precolumbian Mexico ; Matthew Stirling 1896-1975 : discoverer of the Olmecs ; Gertrude Caton-Thompson 1888-1985 : Great Zimbabwe and the African past --

The art of excavation. Giuseppe Fiorelli 1823-96 & Amedeo Maiuri 1886-1963 : excavating and preserving Pompeii ; Augustus Lane Fox Pitt Rivers 1827-1900 : pioneer of archaeological excavation ; William Matthew Flinders Petrie 1853-1942 : excavating and dating ancient Egypt ; Wilhelm Dorpfeld 1853-1940 : scientific excavation at Troy ; Leonard Woolley 1880-1960 : excavator of Ur ; Alfred Kidder 1885-1963 : the American Southwest ; Mortimer Wheeler 1890-1976 & Philip Barker 1920-2001 : maestros of archaeological excavation ; William Foxwell Albright 1891-1971 : father of "biblical archaeology" ; Spyridon Marinatos 1901-74 : Santorini : Akrotiri from beneath the ashes ; Michael Katzev 1930-2001 & Richard Steffy 1924-2007 : underwater archaeology as science ; Ole Crumlin-Pedersen 1935-2011 : Recreating Viking ships -- Decipherers of ancient scripts. Jean-Francois Champollion 1790-1832 : breaking the hieroglyphic code ; Henry Creswicke Rawlinson 1810-95 : deciphering cuneiform ; Michael Ventris 1922-56 : reading linear B tablets as Greek ; Erick Thompson 1898-1975, Tatiana Proskouriakoff 1909-85 & Yuri Knorosov 1922-99 : decoding Maya hieroglyphs --

Discovering world prehistory. Julio Tello 1880-1947 : father of Peruvian archaeology ; Dorothy Garrod 1892-1968 : Mount Carmel and Cro-Magnons ; Li Chi 1896-1979 & Pei Wenzhong 1904-82 : the first Chinese dynasties and early humans in East Asia ; Alexey Okladnikov 1908-81 & Sergey Semenov 1898-1978 : early technology and Neanderthals in Russia ; Louis Leakey 1903-72 & Mary Leakey 1913-96 : human orogins in Africa ; Kathleen Kenyon 1906-78 : excavating Jericho ; Grahame Clark 1907-95 : European and world prehistory ; Robert Braidwood 1907-2003 : early farming n the Near East ; Hanna Marie Wormington 1914-94 & Cynthia Irwin-Williams 1936-90 : female pioneers in North American archaeology ; James B. Griffin 1905-97 : archaeology of eastern North America ; Jesse Jennings 1909-97 : archaeology of the desert West ; Gordon Willey 1913-2002 : the consummate American archaeologist ; J. Desmond Clark 1916-2002 : the broad canvas of African prehistory ; Roger Green 1932-2009 : studying the early Polynesians

Thinking about the past. Vere Gordon Childe 1892-1957 : revolutions in prehistory ; Glyn Daniel 1914-86 & Stuart Piggott 1910-96 : ancient Europeans, megaliths and the wider audience ; Andre Leroi-Gourhan 1911-86 : how humans make their worlds ; David Clarke 1937-76 & Lewis Binford 1931-2011 : pioneers of the "new archaeology" ; Bruce Trigger 1937-2006 : archaeology, anthropology and human society ; William T. Sanders 1926-2008 : culture and environment in Mesoamerica.