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Brief Biography:
Brian Fagan was born in England and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied archaeology and anthropology (BA 1959, MA 1962, Ph.D. 1963). After graduation, he spent six years as Keeper of Prehistory at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia, Central Africa. Those six years were spent in museum and monuments administration and in carrying out excavations on 2,000 year-old farming villages on the Batoka Plateau of southern Zambia. After a year as Director of the Bantu Studies Project of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, he came to the United States in 1966. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1966/67, and has been Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1967. Originally a specialist in pre-European African history and archaeology, Fagan has specialized in teaching, writing, and lecturing about American and general archaeology to the public since coming to the United States. He has been a Guggenheim fellow and a Sigma Xi Lecturer and was awarded the Society for American Archaeology's Public Education Award in 1997.
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