Eberhard Zangger, a senior research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences

University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences

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 at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 (1988–91), is a German writer on geoarchaeology

Geoarchaeology

Geoarchaeology is a multi-disciplinary approach which uses the techniques and subject matter of geography, geology and other Earth sciences to examine topics which inform archaeological knowledge and thought...

 investigating the global interrelations between man and environment, especially in the prehistoric and protohistoric Aegean

Aegean Sea

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. In June 1991, he founded an independent facility for geoarchaeological research in Zurich

Zürich

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, Switzerland. Since then he has been engaged in dozens of archaeological field projects all around the Mediterranean, notably at the vanished Lake Lerna

Lerna

In classical Greece, Lerna was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. Its site near the village Mili at the Argolic Gulf is most famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity...

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Zangger has written a monograph, published by the German Archaeological Institute, as well as more than seventy scholarly articles, which have appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology, Hesperia, the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, and the Journal of Field Archaeology.

Among his published books:

• The Flood from Heaven: Deciphering the Atlantis Legend
• The Geoarchaeology of the Argolid ISBN 3-7861-1700-4 Summarizing geoarchaeological landscape reconstruction conducted by the Argive Plain Project
• The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century 2001 (London:Weidenfeld & Nicolson) ISBN 0-297-64389-4 A survey of modern archaeology applying modern techniques to Aegean prehistory.