Rediscovering our past : essays on the history of American archaeology
This collection of essays examines the history of American archaeology in terms of some of the major figures and internal and external forces that shaped its development. It stresses the importance of using the vast array of unpublished materials in writing the history of archaeology.
Congress
xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781856287012, 1856287017
25548570
The paradigmatic vision of archaeology: archaeology as a bourgeois science / Alice B. Kehoe
Models of southwestern prehistory, 1840-1914 / Don D. Fowler
A methodology for studying the history of archaeology: an example from Peru (1524-1900) / Sergio J. Chavez
The role of biography in writing the history of archaeology / Douglas R. Givens
Women in American archaeology: some historical notes and comments / Jonathan E. Reyman
Being and becoming / Jane H. Kelley
From the other side of the looking glass: women in American archaeology in the 1950s / Carol I. Mason
Women of Chaco: then and now / Frances Joan Mathien
Exploring career styles in archaeology / Dena F. Dincauze
Sylvanus G. Morley and the Carnegie Institution's program of Mayan research / Douglas R. Givens
The matter of Saville: Franz Boas and the anthropological definition of archaeology / Donald E. McVicker
Archaeology, politics, and boundary-formation: the Boas censure (1919) and the development of American archaeology during the inter-war years / Valerie Pinsky
Tello, the press and Peruvian archaeology / Richard E. Daggett
Effect of pioneers on regional archaeology: the Texas example / E. Mott Davis
Harold J. Cook and Jesse D. Figgins: a new perspective on the Folsom discovery / Lawrence J. Jackson and Paul T. Thacker
Reviewing our past: commentary and discussion / Jonathan E. Reyman
Papers based on the first annual Symposium on the History of Archeology and a second symposium, "Women in archaeology."