Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers - Rilegato

Bowden, Mark

 
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Mark Bowden has written an entertaining and thoroughly researched biography of General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827–1900).

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Descrizione del libro

A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827–1900) was influential in four fields during his lifetime: military training, anthropology, archaeology and public education. Yet very little is known about his career, character or motivation.

Contenuti

1. Introduction; 2. Progress in modern musketry; 3 Married life; 4. Ethnology and anthropology; 5. Early archaeological fieldwork; 6. The Inspector of Ancient Monuments; 7. Excavations in Cranborne Chase; 8. Public education; 9. The father of scientific archaeology.

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9780521106221: Pitt Rivers: The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521106222 ISBN 13:  9780521106221
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009
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