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Fairservis, Walter A. (1925-)
Archeologist. An American historian and archaeologist, associate of the department of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History (New York), and writer for archaeological journals. Specializing in the archaeology of South Asia and the Near and Middle East, he has conducted field research in northern Africa, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. Fairservis is the author of a series of books on the origins of the Oriental civilization, the history and culture of Egypt and Nubia, and the archaeology of eastern Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. He wrote a definitive history of ancient India.

WORKS: 'Preliminary Report on the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Afghani-Balochi Areas', in: American Museum Novitates, No. 1587, New York, 1952; 'Excavations in the Quetta Valley, West Pakistan', in: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 45, Part 2, New York, 1956; 'Archaeological Surveys in the Zhob and Loralai Districts, West Pakistan', Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 47, Part 2, New York, 1959; 'Archaeological Studies in the Seistan Basin of South-western Afghanistan and Eastern Iran', in: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 8, Part I, New York, 1961; 'The Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile and the Doomed Monuments of Nubia', New York, 1962; 'The Origin, Character and Decline of an Early Civilization', in: American Museum Novitates, No. 2302, New York, 1967; 'The Roots of Ancient india', New York, 1971.