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Author: Michael J. O'Brien
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2001-08-09
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 0817310843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection elucidates the key role played by the National Research Council seminars, reports, and pamphlets in setting an agenda that has guided American archaeology in the 20th century.
Author: Gordon R. Willey
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2001-02-14
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0817310886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This invaluable classic provides the framework for the development of American archaeology during the last half of the 20th century. In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology—a volume that went through five printings, the last in 1967 at the height of what became known as the new, or processual, archaeology. The advent of processual archaeology, according to Willey and Phillips, represented a "theoretical debate . . . a question of whether archaeology should be the study of cultural history or the study of cultural process." Willey and Phillips suggested that little interpretation had taken place in American archaeology, and their book offered an analytical perspective; the methods they described and the structural framework they used for synthesizing American prehistory were all geared toward interpretation. Method and Theory served as the catalyst and primary reader on the topic for over a decade. This facsimile reprint edition of the original University of Chicago Press volume includes a new foreword by Gordon R. Willey, which outlines the state of American archaeology at the time of the original publication, and a new introduction by the editors to place the book in historical context. The bibliography is exhaustive. Academic libraries, students, professionals, and knowledgeable amateurs will welcome this new edition of a standard-maker among texts on American archaeology.
Author: Jeremy A. Sabloff
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780806138053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gauging the impact of one scholar's contributions to modern archaeology
Author: Janet Rafferty
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2008-07-21
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 0817354891
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An archaeologically rich region, in advance of impending disturbance
Author: Yannis Hamilakis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-06-03
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1315434202
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its relationship to power, and explore how archaeologists can become more overtly agents of social change for individuals and communities.
Author: Malinda Stafford Blustain
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018-04
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 149620543X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM). The only archaeology museum that is part of an American high school, it also did cutting-edge research from the 1930s through the 1970s, ultimately returning to its core mission of teaching and learning in the twenty-first century. Essays explore the early history and notable contributions of the museum’s directors and curators, including a tour de force chapter by James Richardson and J. M. Adovasio that interweaves the history of research at the museum with the intriguing story of the peopling of the Americas. Other chapters tackle the challenges of the 1990s, including shrinking financial resources, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and relationships with American Indian tribes, and the need to revisit the original mission of the museum, namely, to educate high school students. Like many cultural institutions, the RSPM has faced a host of challenges throughout its history. The contributors to this book describe the creative responses to those challenges and the reinvention of a museum with an unusual past, present, and future.
Author: David H. Dye
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2016-06-30
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0817319050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →4. Reinterpreting the Shell Mound Archaic in Western Tennessee: A GIS-Based Approach to Radiocarbon Sampling of New Deal-Era Site Collections - Thaddeus G. Bissett -- 5. Depression-Era Archaeology in the Watts Bar Reservoir, East Tennessee - Shannon Koerner and Jessica Dalton-Carriger -- 6. WPA Excavations at the Mound Bottom and Pack Sites in Middle Tennessee, 1936-1940 - Michael C. Moore, David H. Dye, and Kevin E. Smith -- 7. Reconfiguring the Chickamauga Basin - Lynne P. Sullivan
Author: Lee M. Panich
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-19
Total Pages: 697
ISBN-13: 1000403610
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas brings together scholars from across the hemisphere to examine how archaeology can highlight the myriad ways that Indigenous people have negotiated colonial systems from the fifteenth century through to today. The contributions offer a comprehensive look at where the archaeology of colonialism has been and where it is heading. Geographically diverse case studies highlight longstanding theoretical and methodological issues as well as emerging topics in the field. The organization of chapters by key issues and topics, rather than by geography, fosters exploration of the commonalities and contrasts between historical contingencies and scholarly interpretations. Throughout the volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors grapple with the continued colonial nature of archaeology and highlight Native perspectives on the potential of using archaeology to remember and tell colonial histories. This volume is the ideal starting point for students interested in how archaeology can illuminate Indigenous agency in colonial settings. Professionals, including academic and cultural resource management archaeologists, will find it a convenient reference for a range of topics related to the archaeology of colonialism in the Americas.
Author: Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012-01-06
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0817356886
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines American anthropology's participation in the expansion of the social sciences after World War II. Anthropology itself expanded into diverse subfields at this time on the initiative of individuals. The Association of Senior Anthropologists of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) askes some of these individuals to give accounts of their personal inovations in this discipline which provides primary source material on the history of American anthropology.
Author: R. Lee Lyman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0817312226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system.
