Speakers

Brian Fagan is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading archaeological writers. Educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he spent his early career working in Central Africa before coming to the United States in 1966. He is now an emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His many books include The Rape of the Nile, The Adventure of Archaeology, and four volumes on ancient climate change and human society: Floods, Famines and Emperors about past El Niños; The Long Summer, about 15,000 years of climate change; The Little Ice Age; and The Great Warming, which describes the Medieval Warm Period and its implications for today. A sequel on the history of water and ancient human societies will appear in 2011.