- Eberhard Zangger
Eberhard Zangger, (born in 1958,
Kamen , Germany), a senior research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at theUniversity of Cambridge (1988–91), is a German writer ongeoarchaeology investigating the global interrelations between man and environment, especially in the prehistoric and protohistoric Aegean. In June 1991, he founded an independent facility for geoarchaeological research inZurich , Switzerland. Since then he has been engaged in dozens of archaeological field projects all around the Mediterranean, notably at the vanished Lake Lerna. ["Prehistoric Coastal Environments in Greece: The Vanished Landscapes of Dimini Bay and Lake Lerna" in "Journal of Field Archaeology" 18 (1991) pp1–15 [http://www.bu.edu/jfa/Abstracts/Z/ZanggerE_18_1.html Abstract] ]Zangger has written a monograph, published by the German Archaeological Institute, as well as more than seventy scholarly articles, which have appeared in the "American Journal of Archaeology", "Hesperia", the "Oxford Journal of Archaeology", and the "Journal of Field Archaeology".
Among his published books:
*"The Flood from Heaven: Deciphering the Atlantis Legend"
*"The Geoarchaeology of the Argolid" ISBN 3-7861-1700-4 Summarizing geoarchaeological landscape reconstruction conducted by the Argive Plain Project
* "The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century" 2001 (London:Weidenfeld & Nicolson) ISBN 0-297-64389-4 A survey of modern archaeology applying modern techniques to Aegean prehistory.Notes
References
* [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/zangger.html Edge: Eberhard Zangger]
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