David Stronach and British Archaeology in the Middle East

This book tells the story of one of the leading figures of Near Eastern archaeology. But it is also an extraordinary evocation of the world of Near Eastern archaeology in the last half of the twentieth century: a world of big digs, big ideas, big personalities that has disappeared forever. * Warwick Ball, Archaeologist and Author, UK *
This biography of the much-admired and beloved archaeologist, David Stronach, is both informed and enlivened by its extensive verbatims from colleagues and friends...The volume presents a welcome record of David’s (and more broadly, British) contributions to the pre-Islamic history and archaeology of Iran—in particular, his digs at Median Nush-e Jan and Achaemenid Pasargadae—along with a history of British archaeology in the Near East from the 20th century into our current one, as it includes David’s accounts of his early professional years in Anatolia and in Iraq, especially at Assyrian Nimrud. * Judith A. Lerner, Research Associate, New York University, USA *