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"Up to a point humble things have their adventure, too. Yet it is difficult to write vividly about, say, domestic 'storage, caches, and the night-time organisation of house contents'. Perhaps the modern drama lies elsewhere entirely, in the relations between researcher and researched. Professor Fagan includes cases where the archaeologists have been surprised into remembering that their data may be someone's heritage. But, in any case, who can tell? There is so much variety here, and with luck a general reader will stray across a boundary and be as fired by, say, the chronological evidence of Dutch tobacco pipe stem bores as by anything else. For the unreconstructed there are still wonders enough."

The Courage Consort
by Faber, Michel
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Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory, Second Edition
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I SAILED WITH MAGELLAN
by Dybek, Stuart
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