Disgraceful Archaeology: Or Things You Shouldn't Know About the History of Mankind

by Paul Bahn, Bill Tidy

Overview

The book that all archaeology buffs have secretly been yearning for! This unique blend of text, anecdote and cartoon reveals, and revels in, those aspects of the past that have been ignored, glossed over or even suppressed — the bawdy, the scatological and the downright bizarre. Our ancestors were not always serious, downtrodden and fearful creatures. They were human like ourselves and shared our earthy sense of humour that is based on bodily functions, bawdiness and slapstick. So it's time to take the fig leaf off the past and have a long, hard look at the real past — the world that would have had the Victorians reaching for their smelling salts. So if you want to know what your average Egyptian slave thought of pharaoh, or a Roman legionary thought of his commander, you will find the answer in Disgraceful Archaeology — in hilarious graphic detail!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780752483337
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	02/29/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Bill Tidy has a worldwide reputation as Britain’s most versatile cartoonist.
Paul Bahn is the bestselling author of Bluff Your Way in Archaeology. In his more sober moments he is co-author (with Professor Colin Renfrew) of Archaeology: Theories, Methods & Practice and the author or co-author of many other bestselling books on archaeology.