Centuries of Darkness: Challenge to the Conventional Chronology of Old World Archaeology - Softcover

James, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712655182 ISBN 13: 9780712655187

Publisher: Pimlico, 1992

Synopsis

This book draws attention to a crucial period in world history and to the very shaky nature of the dating upon which our current interpretations rest. The author is the editor of "Studies in Ancient Chronology" and wrote articles in the "New Scientist" and "Current Archaeology".

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About the Author:

Peter James graduated in ancient history and archaeology at Birmingham University and is now engaged in postgraduate research at University College, London. He is the editor of the periodical Studies in Ancient Chronology, and has contirbuted articles to New Scientist and Current Archaeology. I.J. Thorpe graduated at Reading University and received his PhD on prehistoric Britain from London University. He is currently directing fieldwork projects in Cumbria and Denmark, and has published papers on prehistoric astronomy, burial papers and chronology. Nikos Kokkinos graduated at the Institute of Archaeology, London, and is now Dorothea Gray Senior Scholar at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He was a contributor to Chronological Studies for Jack Finegan (1989) and is the author of Jesus the Galilean (in Greek, 1980). Robert Morkot graduated in ancient history and Egyptology at University College, London. He is the G. A. Wainwright Research Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology at Oxford Unirsity and is currently preparing the excavation reports of Sesibi (Egypt Exploration Society) and Faras (Oxford University). John Frankish, Aegean archaeologist, graduated at Liverpool Univeristy before taking up research studies at University College, London, and the British School at Athens. Between 1987 and 1989 he received a scholarship from the Greek goverment for fieldwork in Crete.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pimlico
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0712655182
• ISBN 13: 9780712655187
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 434