Brian Murray Fagan (n. Inglaterra, Reino Unido, 1936), profesor de antropología en la Universidad de Santa Bárbara (California, Estados Unidos), es un escritor norteamericano autor de numerosos libros de arqueología.

Obra

• The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975 (hardcover, ISBN 0-684-14235-X); Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004 (revised and updated ed., paperback, ISBN 0-8133-4061-6).
• Quest for the Past: Great Discoveries in Archaeology. Boston: Addison Wesley, 1978 (paperback, ISBN 0-201-03111-6).
• Clash of Cultures. New York: W.H. Freeman & Company, 1984 (paperback, ISBN 0-7167-1622-4); Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 1997 (hardcover, ISBN 0-7619-9146-8; paperback, ISBN 0-7619-9145-X).
• The Adventure of Archaeology. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1985 (hardcover, ISBN 0-87044-603-7)
• The Great Journey: The Peopling of Ancient America. London: Thames & Hudson, 1987 (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05045-7); 1989 (paperback, ISBN 0-500-27515-7); Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004 (updated ed., paperback, ISBN 0-8130-2756-X).
• Journey from Eden: The Peopling of Our World. London: Thames & Hudson, 1991 (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05057-0).
• Kingdoms of Gold, Kingdoms of Jade: The Americas Before Columbus. London: Thames & Hudson, 1991 (hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05062-7).
• Snapshots of the Past. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 1995 (hardcover, ISBN 0-7619-9109-3; paperback, ISBN 0-7619-9108-5).
• Time Detectives: How Archaeologist Use Technology to Recapture the Past. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995 (hardcover, ISBN 0-671-79385-3; paperback, ISBN 0-684-81828-0).
• (editor) The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 1996 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-507618-4).
• (editor) Eyewitness to Discovery: First-Person Accounts of More Than Fifty of the World's Greatest Archaeological Discoveries. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 1997 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-508141-2); 1999 (paperback, ISBN 0-19-512651-3).
• Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations. New York: Basic Books, 1999 (hardcover, ISBN 0-465-01120-9); 2000 (paperback, ISBN 0-465-01121-7); London: Pimlico, 2001 (new ed., paperback, ISBN 0-7126-6478-5)
• (editor) The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Ancient World: Unlocking the Secrets of Past Civilizations. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001 (paperback, ISBN 0-500-51050-4).
• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850 (La Pequeña edad de Hielo). New York: Basic Books, 2000 (hardcover, ISBN 0-465-02271-5); 2001 (paperback, ISBN 0-465-02272-3).
• Stonehenge. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 2002 (ISBN 0-19-514314-0).
• Archaeologists: Explorers of the Human Past. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 2003 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-511946-0).
• Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 (paperback, ISBN 0-7425-2794-8); AltaMira Press, 2004 (new ed., paperback, ISBN 0-7591-0374-7).
• Grahame Clark: An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001 (hardcover, ISBN 0-8133-3602-3); 2003 (paperback, ISBN 0-8133-4113-2).
• The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books, 2003 (hardcover, ISBN 0-465-02281-2); 2004 (paperback, ISBN 0-465-02282-0).
• A Brief History of Archaeology: Classical Times to the Twenty-First Century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004 (paperback, ISBN 0-13-177698-3).
• (editor) The Seventy Great Inventions of the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004 ((hardcover, ISBN 0-500-05130-5).
• Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 2005 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-517043-1).
• Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories About the Past. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2005 (hardcover, ISBN 1-59874-004-0; paperback ISBN 1-59874-005-9).
• From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing. New York: Oxford University Press (USA), 2006 (hardcover, ISBN 0-19-516091-6).
• Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, And Discovery of the New World. New York: Basic Books, 2007 (hardcover, ISBN 0-465-02284-7; paperback, ISBN 0-465-02285-5).

Otras lecturas

• Fagan, Brian. "Retrospect (But certainly not a necrology!)", Antiquity, Vol. 78, Issue 299. (2004), pp. 173–183.

Enlaces externos

• Brian Murray Fagan en el EMuseum of the Minnesota State University, Mankato (en inglés).
• Course syllabus para un curso de Antropología impartido por Brian Fagan (en inglés).
• Entrevista a Brian Fagan en la Society for California Archaeology (en inglés).
• Entrevista de audio en National Review Online (en inglés).
• Libros de Brian Fagan en línea (en inglés).