Walter Ashlin Fairservis (1921 – 1994) was an American
archaeologist
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.
Early life
He was born in
Brooklyn
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,
New York
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, United States, in 1921. His mother, Edith Yeager, was an actress. His wife, Jano, was an artist and illustrator. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from
Columbia University
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and a second M.A. and a Ph.D. from
Harvard University
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.
Bibliography
Some of his notable books are:
* ''Before the Buddha Came''
* ''The Roots of Ancient India''
* ''Cave Paintings of the Great Hunters''
* ''The Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile and the Doomed Monuments of Nubia''
* ''The Archeology of the Southern Gobi-Mongolia''
* ''The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing: A Model for the Decipherment of the Indus Script''
* ''The Threshold of Civilization: An Experiment in Prehistory''
* ''The Origins of Oriental Civilization''
References
External links
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Harvard University alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Vassar College faculty
People from Brooklyn
1921 births
1994 deaths
20th-century American archaeologists
Historians from New York (state)
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