About the Author

Susan Heuck Allen has taught at Yale and Tufts universities and is currently Visiting Scholar in the Department of Classics at Brown University.

Reviews

"Allen may have done for archaeology what "The Double Helix did for the discovery of DNA's structure: Bare the petty competitiveness that sometimes underlies objective science, giving a darkly ironic twist to the axiom that each successful scientific pioneer stands on the shoulders of those who went before."--"The Providence Sunday Journal