WESTCHESTER AIA ARCHAEOLOGY BOOK CLUB
The Book Club meets at 1:30 p.m. on the 3rd Thursday of each month from September to June.
We read and discuss books connected with our interest in archaeology. Books we have read since 2005 are listed below.
New members are welcome to come to our meetings, and if you would like to know more
about the book group, please call or email Myrna Silverman: at 914 769 5389 or myrnaws@aol.com
OUR NEXT BOOK CLUB MEETING :
AIA ARCHAEOLOGY BOOK CLUB MEETING
Next Meeting: Thursday, February 16, 2012
Time/Place: 1:30 PM, at Greenburgh Public Library, Tarrytown Road (Rte 119) at Knollwood
Rd., Elmsford, in Small Conference Room
The Book: To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology by
Marina Belozerskaya
This
is the story of Cyriacus Pizzecolli of Ancona, a Renaissance
businessman who educated himself in classical civilizations in order
to understand. investigate, document and preserve their physical
remains, to "wake the dead" of antiquity. He was a key figure in the
birth of archeology.
There are copies of the book in numerous libraries.
For those who like to read ahead, the book for March will be Why The West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by archaeologist Ian Morris.
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WESTCHESTER AIA ARCHAEOLOGY BOOK CLUB BOOKS:
Interested in knowing what books we've already read in the AIA Archaeology Book Club? Below is the list.
2012
Mapping Human History by Steve Olson
2010-2011
Beak of the Finch: A Story Of Evolution In Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity by David Hurst Thomas
alternately: Every Bone Tells a Story by Jill Rubalcaba and Peter Robertshaw
The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander
The Maya by Michael D. Coe and other books about the Mayas
The Far Traveler, Voyages of a Viking woman by Nancy Marie Brown
The Aztecs by Michael E. Smith and other books about the Aztecs
The Olmecs by Richard A. Diehl and other books about the Olmecs
Portrait of a Priestess by Joan Breton Connelly
Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff
Alexander's Tomb, The 2000 Year Obsession To Find The Lost Conqueror by Nicholas J. Saunders
In Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts
The Lost Tomb by Kent R Weeks
Language Visible by David Sachs
2009-2010
The Etruscans by Michael Grant or other books about the Etruscans
Bandelier, The Life and Adventures of Adolf Bandelier by Charles H. Lange & Carroll L. Riley
Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Apocalypse, Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God by Amos Nur and Dawn Burgess
Ur of the Chaldees, a revised and updated edition of Sir Leonard Wooley's Excavations at Ur by P.R.S. Moorey
Man in the Ice: The Discovery of a 5,000 Year-Old Body Reveals the Secrets of the Stone Age by Konrad Spindler
Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson
2008-2009
China's First Emperor and his Terracotta Warriors by Frances Wood
Who Owns Antiquity ? by James Cuno
Loot by Sharon Waxman
A Rage to Live, A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell
Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Turbron
The Road to Ubar, Finding the Atlantis of the Sands by Nicholas Clapp
A Splendid Exchange, How Trade Shaped the World by William J. Bernstein
The Places in Between by Rory Stewart
Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel by William G. Dever
Thieves of Baghdad by Matthew Bogdanos
2007-2008
The Goddess and the Bell: Catalhoyuk, An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization
by Michael Balter
Dragon Sea: A True Tale of Treasure, Archaeology and Greed Off the Coast of Vietnam by Frank Pope
The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh by David Damrosch
The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk by Ian Hodder
Return to Sodom and Gomorrah by Charles R. Pellegrino
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origin of Music, Language, Mind and Body by Steven Mithen
Napoleon’s Lost Fleet: Bonaparte, Nelson and the Battle of the Nile, by Laura Foreman & others
Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions by Charles Gallenkamp
The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists and Archaeologists in Egypt, by Brian Fagan
2006-2007
Breaking the Maya Code, by Michael Coe
Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings, translated and comments by Dennis Tedlock
1491 – New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, by Charles C. Mann
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America, by Russell Shorto
Mayflower, by Nathaniel Philbrick
Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey, by Charles Pellegrino
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art, by David Lewis-Williams
The Archeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls by Jodi Magness
Jamestown, the Buried Truth by William M. Kelso
2005-2006
Stealing History, by Roger Atwood
Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit, by David A. Traill
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia, by Janet Wallach
Born To Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes, by Mary Allsebrook
Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History, by Walter Pitman and William Ryan
The Mummies of Urumchi, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Pompeii, by Robert Harris
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