New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology

New Perspectives on the Origins of Americanist Archaeology

    • $39.99
    • $39.99

Publisher Description

In this landmark book, experienced scholars take a retrospective look at the developing routes that have brought American archaeologists into the 21st century.




In 1996, the Society for American Archaeology’s Committee on the History of Archaeology established a biennial symposium

named after Gordon R. Willey, one of the fathers of American archaeology, to focus on the history of the discipline. This volume grew out of the

second symposium, presented at the 1998 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.





Interest in the intellectual history of the field is certainly nothing new—the first such volume appeared in 1856—but previously, focus has been on individuals and their theories and methods, or on various government agencies that supported, developed, or mandated

excavations in North America. This volume, however, focuses on the roots of Americanist archaeology, including its pre-1915 European connections, and on some of the earliest work by women archaeologists, which has been largely overlooked.





Full of valuable insights for archaeologists and anthropologists—both professional and amateur—into the history and

development of Americanist archaeology, New Perspectives will also inspire and serve as a model for future research.

 


David Browman is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology at Washington University. Stephen Williams is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Harvard University.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2009
October 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
390
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Alabama Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
2.6
MB

More Books Like This

The Land of Prehistory The Land of Prehistory
2015
Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology
2018
Relic Hunters Relic Hunters
2018
Human Expeditions Human Expeditions
2013
From Antiquarian to Archaeologist From Antiquarian to Archaeologist
2014
Grahame Clark Grahame Clark
2018

More Books by David L. Browman & Stephen Williams