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Spring Books
Nature 429, 25-26 (6 May 2004) | doi:10.1038/429025a
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- Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP)
- Paris France
Research Assistant Professor, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Statistical Genetic Analyst, and Scientific Programmer Positions in Statistical Human Genetics
- University of Michigan
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Jeremy A. Sabloff1
BOOK REVIEWED-The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
by Brian Fagan
Granta/Basic Books: 2004. 284pp. £20/$26
Archaeology has numerous goals, which include constructing histories of peoples' cultures through space and time, offering an appreciation of the achievements of past civilizations, and providing historical contexts, both cultural and ecological, for modern events and processes. Writing about such issues for the public can be a challenge, but Brian Fagan is one of the world's most accomplished and prolific popularizers of this complex discipline.
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