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The Lives of Archaeologists

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What drives the insatiable curiosity of archeologists? Why do they spend weeks, sometimes months, in dangerous and far-off places, painstakingly searching for fragments of the past? Author Marilyn Johnson answers those questions in “Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble.”