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    Three Stones Make a Wall: The Story of Archaeology

    By Eric H. Cline and Glynnis Fawkes

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    From the bestselling author of 1177 B.C., a comprehensive history of archaeology—from its amateur beginnings to the cutting-edge science it is today.

    In 1922, Howard Carter peered into Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time, the only light coming from the candle in his outstretched hand. Urged to tell what he was seeing through the small opening he had cut in the door to the tomb, the Egyptologist famously replied, "I see wonderful things." Carter's fabulous discovery is just one of the many spellbinding stories told in Three Stones Make a Wall.

    Written by Eric Cline, an archaeologist with more than thirty seasons of excavation experience, Three Stones Make a Wall traces the history of archaeology from an amateur pursuit to the cutting-edge science it is today by taking the reader on a tour of major archaeological sites and discoveries, from Pompeii to Petra, Troy to the Terracotta Warriors, and Mycenae to Megiddo and Masada. Cline brings to life the personalities behind these digs, including Heinrich Schliemann, the former businessman who excavated Troy, and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries advanced our understanding of human origins. The discovery of the peoples and civilizations of the past is presented in vivid detail, from the Hittites and Minoans to the Inca, Aztec, and Moche. Along the way, the book addresses the questions archaeologists are asked most often: How do you know where to dig? How are excavations actually done? How do you know how old something is? Who gets to keep what is found?

    Taking readers from the pioneering digs of the eighteenth century to the exciting new discoveries being made today, Three Stones Make a Wall is a lively and essential introduction to the story of archaeology.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateFeb 14, 2017
    ISBN9781400884612
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      Cline references C. W. Ceram's gripping and romantic God's Graves and Scholars (1949) in his introduction, as one of the books that inspired him as a child to become an archaeologist. I suspect this is common; it certainly inspired me, who only dabbled in it in graduate school. At the same time, Ceram certainly needs updating, and Cline endeavors to do this—to provide a narrative overview of the history of world archaeology, old and new world, including the discoveries and techniques perfected in the last seventy years.As an overview, it is adequate, but as a replacement for Ceram and others of his type, it falls flat. Cline knows a lot, but he doesn't know how to write an exciting account. His topic is exciting, and some of this can't help getting through his prose. But listening to Cline slowly, I notice occasion after occasion that he "steps on" his tale--omitting details, telling things in a confusing order or just crafting a sentence poorly. At the same time, the intent is popularizing--it doesn't contain a lot of deep scholarship or powerful insight. (I particularly regret Cline's disinterest in languages, scripts and decipherment, which is no doubt representative of a shift in skills and attention since Ceram's time.) Crowd-pleasing as Ceram was, he was also more interested in drawing the reader into the scholarly questions; Cline mostly just gives the answers. So, basically, it's Ceram, plus some CAT scans and photos taken from space, minus the scholarly details and romance.