Download or read book Time Detectives written by Brian Fagan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on some notable archaeological finds of recent years. The author describes how today's archaeologists use science and technology to recapture the past, for instance, by studying ancient diets from bone collagen and reconstructing lost landscapes from fossilized seeds and grains.