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Brian M. Fagan

Born

in England, The United Kingdom

August 01, 1936

Died

July 01, 2025

Website

http://www.brianfagan.com/

Genre

Archaeology, Anthropology

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Brian Murray Fagan was a British author of popular archaeology books and a professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 13,315 ratings · 1,579 reviews · 143 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 3.81 avg rating — 3,019 ratings — published 2000 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans 3.69 avg rating — 1,844 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little History of Archaeology 3.77 avg rating — 1,020 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization 3.88 avg rating — 763 ratings — published 2003 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations 3.77 avg rating — 675 ratings — published 2008 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human Prehistory and the First Civilizations 3.79 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt 4.01 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 1975	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History by Brian M. Fagan, Nadia Durrani (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 283 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans 3.42 avg rating — 286 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History 3.53 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The heyday of the Norse, which lasted roughly from A.D. 800 to about 1200, was not only a byproduct of such social factors as technology, overpopulation and opportunism. Their great conquests and explorations took place during a period of unusually mild and stable weather in northern Europe called the Medieval Warm Period-some of the warmest four centuries of the previous 8,000 years.”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850

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“Everyone in England ate mutton, but not horse meat, especially as influential people considered horses they had ridden both noble and too close to humans for either clerics or lords to consume.”
― Brian M. Fagan, The Intimate Bond: How Animals Shaped Human History

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“at a seminal yet still little known moment in history, Homo sapiens developed the full battery of cognitive skills that we ourselves possess. After a surprisingly short time, perhaps a mere five thousand years, their descendants moved northward into Eurasia and Europe.”
― Brian M. Fagan, Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

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