It teases out the history that falls between the cracks.” Much like Mary Roach, another sharp writer who often tackles a single topic, Johnson casts her net widely, from the Caribbean to Stony Brook and Fishkill, New York, to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey to Agios Georgios, a small village in Greece. Throughout, she demonstrates a learned hand in her minibiographies of various practitioners of the discipline-e.g., Joan Connelly of New York University, who told the author, “Good archaeology fills in the blanks of history. Eustatius in the Caribbean-where she received a glimmering of how backbreaking, tedious work can be imbued with high suspense.
On her journeys, Johnson attended a field-training school-on St. In her latest endeavor, the author, who makes a habit of looking into atypical subjects and then writing about them with brio and dash, takes on the discipline of archaeology, which is on a bit of a hot streak, thanks to technological advances, war, commercial development, violent weather and warming temperatures, all doing their parts to reveal our past. Science reporter Johnson ( This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, 2010, etc.) explores the work of archaeologists.
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