Brian Fagan is a prolific author of popular archaeology books and a professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA. Fagan was born in England where he received his childhood education at Rugby School. He attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied archaeology and anthropology (BA 1959, MA 1962, PhD 1965). He spent six years as Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia, Central Africa, and moved to the U.S.A. in 1966. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in 1966/67, and was appointed Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1967. Fagan is an archaeological generalist, with expertise in the broad issues of human prehistory. He is the author or editor of 46 books, including seven widely used undergraduate college texts. Fagan has contributed over 100 specialist papers to many national and international journals. He is a Contributing Editor to American Archaeology and Discover Archaeology magazines, and formerly wrote a regular column for Archaeology Magazine. He serves on the Editorial Boards of six academic and general periodicals and has many popular magazine credits, including Scientific American and Gentleman's Quarterly. Fagan has been an archaeological consultant for many organizations, including National Geographic Society, Time-Life, Encyclopædia Britannica, and Microsoft Encarta. He has lectured extensively about archaeology and other subjects throughout the world at many venues, including the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, the San Francisco City Lecture Program, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Getty Conservation Institute. CONTENT: Little Histories 1. A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan.Series: The Great Courses 2. The Discovery of Ancient Civilizations by John McNeill.Series: The Basics 3. World Prehistory: The Basics by Brian Fagan.Non-Series 4. Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization by Brian Fagan.5. Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans by Brian Fagan.6. Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind by Brian Fagan.7. Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations by John McNeill.8. The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History by Brian Fagan.9. The Rape of the Nile, Revised and Updated: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt by Brian Fagan.10. Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors by Brian Fagan.11. The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations by Brian Fagan.12. Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans by Brian Fagan.13. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization by Brian Fagan.14. Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations by Brian Fagan.15. 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