Pot Luck: Adventures in Archaeology
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (611 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082631760X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 197 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Lister offers a happy mix of expert knowledge, professional experience, personal reflection, and wonderful writing.. Written in the years following Robert Lister's death in 1990, Pot Luck describes professional archaeology in personal terms, offering lively portraits of premier archaeologists and archaeological expeditions alongside vignettes of the Lister children at play and the Lister marriage at work. Lister and their two children traveled the archaeological world from 1940 to 1990. Pot Luck follows the Listers on expeditions in Mexico, the Middle East, Spain, and the Southwest. and Robert H. Pot Luck, however, takes the Lister bibliography in a new a direction. Husband and wife archaeologists Florence C. They produced numerous respected studies in the field of Southwestern archaeology and ceramics
Lister is a distinguished archaeologist and historian of archaeology who lives in Mancos, Colorado. Florence C.
From the Inside Flap A lighthearted account of fifty years of archaeological fieldwork, and a serious look at the worldwide role of ceramics in cultural understanding.
Pam Hanna said Pots - bones of civilization - and the lucky finders. Potsherds, it seems, are as important to archeologists as bones to anthropologists. They both last. They both tell part of the human story. Somewhat in the tradition of Osa Johnson's famous chronicle, *I Married Adventure* of the previous generation, Florence Lister takes the reader al