Breve Historia De La Arqueolog??/ Brief History of Archeology

Brief history of archeology will show you the progress of humanity over thousands of years and the traces our ancestors left in the soil in sedimentary deposits before they became really human, under the sands of the regions devastated by the invasions and disaster, forgotten in thick jungles or on the bottom of the seas. The author, Jorge Garcia, not only will show you the events that marked humanity, but the intricacies of a subject whose goals were not always altruistic; before becoming a science, it was the breeding ground for abusive collectors, colonial plundering and massive destruction of antiques, which were usually confined in museums, for centuries. Throughout this work, we will read Renaissance manuscripts, we will enter the tunnels carved out in Pompeii and Herculanum, and we will accompany Heinrich Schliemann to excavations at Troy and Mycenae, or Arthur Evans to the ruins of the palace of the mythical Crete. We will also cast light on which is the most revolutionary methods of chronological dating, which kind of techniques are currently employed in archeological excavations and which kind of discoveries the archaeologist’s dream of..

Jorge Garcia Sanchez is a researcher and professor of archeology at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2005 he achieved his doctorate at the university with the thesis The value of antiquity in Spanish architects that lived in Rome (in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), which was published some time later. After several research stays in Italy, he joined the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (CISC), where he had several postdoctoral contracts and favored the dissemination of scientific knowledge. He lived in the Italian capital until 2010, when he returned to Spain. In his academic and outreach work, he has focused primarily on investigating the History of Archeology; the influence of Spanish art in Italy between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries; the world of art, archeological and exploration travels through Europe and the East; the art collecting world of works of classical art; the archeology of our country in Greece and Italy; and recently in the world of education in Roman times. He has also published the book The Italian Enlightenment (published by Ediciones Nowtilus).