Digging Through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist

By Carmel Schrire

Book Overview

In Digging Through Darknes, Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. Tracking the broad sweep of European expansion into Africa, Australia, and the Pacific, Schrire focuses on the evidence unearthed in archaeological sites, leading the reader through a wealth of strata and artifacts, to see how inferences may be drawn from heaps of broken bones and stones. This interweaving gives voice not only to the literate colonists but also to illiterate native people who endured dispossession in silence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813916925
• ISBN13: 9780813916927
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher