God, Grave, Scholar

…He lived in the United States from 1954 until his return in 1971, when he died in Hamburg. He was known as the author of a solid yet romantic book on archaeology that was based on historical evidence, and his book God, the Grave, and the Scholar (1949) became a worldwide bestseller, translated into 26 languages. His other works include The Narrow Valley and the Black Mountain (1955), The Ancient History of God and the Grave (1957), and The First Americans (1972), most of which have been translated into Japanese. …

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…54年以降アメリカに住み，71年帰国してハンブルクで没。資料を踏まえた堅実かつロマンティックな考古学啓蒙書の著者として知られ，とくに《神･墓･学者》(1949)は26ヵ国語に翻訳される世界的ベストセラーとなった。ほかに《狭い谷と黒い山》(1955)，《神と墓の古代史》(1957)，《最初のアメリカ人》(1972)などがあり，大部分邦訳がなされている。…

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