Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage by William L. Rathje, Cullen Murphy

Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage

William L. Rathje, Cullen Murphy

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced

280 pages | first published 1992

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It is from the discards of former civilizations that archaeologists have reconstructed most of what we know about the past, and it is through their examination of today’s garbage that William Rathje and Cullen Murphy inform us of our present. Rubb...
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