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Tables of Contents for Eyewitness to Discovery
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
3
5
Map and Timeline
8
3
PART I: THE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN ORIGINS
Introduction
11
8
The Antiquity of Humankind
19
10
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
John Evans
Finding Beijing Man
29
8
J. Gunnar Andersson
The Discovery of Australopithecus
37
9
Raymond Arthur Dart
The Discovery of Zinjanthropus boisei
46
7
Mary Leakey
Louis Leakey
Lucy
53
8
Donald Johanson
The Cro-Magnons
61
14
Edouard Lartet
Louis Lartet
PART II: GREAT DISCOVERIES
Introduction
69
6
Egypt and the Near East
Tomb Robber by the Nile
75
4
Giovanni Belzoni
The Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
79
11
Jean Francois Champollion
Tomkyns Turner
Assyrian Palaces at Nimrud
90
10
Austen Henry Layard
Cracking Cuneiform's Code
100
5
Henry Creswicke Rawlinson
The Tomb of Tutankhamun
105
11
Howard Carter
The Nubian Kings of Kerma
116
8
George Reisner
Ukhaidir and Assur
124
7
Gertrude Bell
The Royal Cemetery at Ur
131
10
Leonard Woolley
Excavating Under Jerusalem
141
9
Charles Warren
The Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
150
13
John Allegro
Digging Up Jericho
163
7
Kathleen Kenyon
Greece and the Aegean
The Aegina Marbles
170
6
Samuel Pepys Cockerell
Homeric Troy
176
10
Heinrich Schliemann
Minoan Civilization at the Palace of Knossos
186
11
Arthur Evans
A Bronze Age Town in Gournia, Crete
197
9
Mary Allesbrook
Harriet Boyd Hawes
Earthquake at Kourion, Cyprus
206
8
David Soren
Jamie James
Europe
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
214
10
Charles Green
The Horsemen of Pazyryk
224
5
Sergei Rudenko
The Discovery of Tollund Man
229
9
Peter Glob
Otzi the Ice Man
238
13
Konrad Spindler
Africa
Great Zimbabwe
251
6
Carl Mauch
The Oudepost Discovery
257
13
Carmel Schrire
Asia and the Pacific
The Terracotta Army of Emperor Shihungdi
270
5
Arthur Cotterell
Han Burials in China
275
5
Brian Fagan
The Princess of Khok Phanom Di, Thailand
280
8
Charles Higham
Late Ice Age Hunters in Tasmania
288
6
Rhys Jones
North America
A Paleo-Indian Bison Kill
294
15
Joe Ben Wheat
Ozette, Washington
309
5
Richard Daugherty
Ruth Kirk
Tragedy at Utquiagvik, Alaska
314
10
Albert A. Dekin Jr.
An African Cemetery in Manhattan
324
10
Spencer Harrington
Central and South America
Exploring Maya Copan
334
11
John Lloyd Stephens
Pacal's Tomb at Palenque, Mexico
345
8
Alberto Ruz
The Murals of Bonampak, Mexico
353
4
Karl Ruppert
The Aztec Templo Mayor
357
10
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Adventure at Macchu Picchu
367
6
Hiram Bingham
The Lords of Sipan
373
10
Walter Alva
Christopher Donnan
PART III: ARCHAEOLOGY BECOMES A SCIENCE
Introduction
379
4
The First American Archaeologist
383
4
Thomas Jefferson
Excavation, Victorian and Edwardian Style
387
5
Thomas Wright
J.C. Droop
Revolutionizing Excavation
392
7
Augusts Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
War Casualties at Thebes
399
6
Herbert Eustice Winlock
Bridging Cultures at Carchemish
405
8
Leonard Woolley
Tutankhamun's Wife
413
4
Mary Chubb
The Battle of Maiden Castle
417
9
R. E. Mortimer Wheeler
Foragers at Koster, Illinois
426
12
Stuart Struever
The Underwater Exploration of the Uluburun Ship
438
7
Cemal Pulak
Donald A. Frey
Historical Archaeology: Martin's Hundred, Virginia
445
7
Ivor Noel Hume
Ramesses II's Sons
452
15
Douglas Preston
Credits
467
3
Bibliography
470
5
Index
475