Brian M. Fagan

Brian Murray Fagan ( born August 1, 1936 in England ) is a former professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States.

Fagan studied archeology and anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He conducted research in Central and East Africa and worked from 1959 to 1964 at the Livingstone Museum in Zambia, the former Northern Rhodesia. Then he led the Bantu Studies Project at the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi, but resigned after a year at a post at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. In 1967 he took over as Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, which he held until his retirement. A wide audience, he became known through popular science books on the early history of mankind.

Writings

• The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization (2004) ISBN 0-465-02281-2
• : Editing of the two previously published books The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
• Floods, Famines, and Emperors