

Lives in Ruins
Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Author: Marilyn Johnson
Narrator: Hillary Huber
Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/02/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Archaeology
Synopsis
Marilyn Johnson's Lives in Ruins is an absorbing and entertaining look at the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past. Johnson digs and drinks alongside archaeologists, and chases them through the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and even Machu Picchu. Her subjects share stories about slaves and Ice Age hunters, ordinary soldiers of the American Revolution, Chinese woman warriors, sunken fleets, and mummies. What drives these archaeologists is not the money (meager), the jobs (scarce), or the working conditions (dangerous) but their passion for the stories that would otherwise be buried and lost.