Intellectual Biographies in Archaeology

Anthro 304 / ARY 301
Prof. Samuel M. Wilson
Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas


Paper 1: Scholars' Biographies

For this assignment you must write an intellectual biography of an archaeologist. By "intellectual biography" that I mean a 3-5 page biographical essay that focusses on a person's scholarly life -- what questions have driven their research, where they have carried out archaeological work, what they have written, and so on. This will involve library research, looking up and reading their work. It will also involve something like detective work, figuring out what people were doing at various points in their lives, and how their views changed through time. I would like you to include a bibliography of at least 5-10 of their major written works, and links to other information on them or their work. Here are some suggestions of names of archaeologists, you may use others if you wish, but check with me first.

 

Spring 1997 Spring 1998
 



 Spring 1998
 

Sara Carolina Alonso - A Learning Affair -- A. V. Kidder

Bradley Birt - James Deetz: A Biographical Sketch

David Campbell - Yigael Yadin, A Warrior for Israel (1917-1984)

Joe Carter - Joseph Carter and Greek Colonization
Gloria Collins - Archaeology in the Realm of Ruth Tringham
Hilary Gafford - The Mysterious Ruins of Copan
Kristina Hagar - Julian Haynes Steward

Alissa Krochenski - Alfred Vincent Kidder,1885-1963

Katherine LeMaster - William Baker: A Pioneer of Panhandle Paleoindians
Heather McBride - North America's Hidden Treasure
Amber McIlwain - General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, the father of British Archaeology
Mary Anne MarDock - An Analysis of the Career of Kent Flannery
Owen Morris - Max Uhle (1856-1944)
Julie Ramirez - The Scholarly Life of James A. Ford
Debbie Saxton - The Original Affluent Society
Drennan Smith - The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huangdi
Jennifer E. Stephens - General Pitt Rivers' Influence on Modern Archaeology


Spring 1997
 

Annie Airaudi - -- Dancing, Language, and Racism--the Passions of Franz Boas

Bill Baird - Richard MacNeish- A Brief Archaeological Biography
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Joe Billeaud - Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler (1890-1976)
 
Matthew Cavazos - Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon and Her Archaeology at Jericho
 
Jenny Dente - Mary Douglas Nicol Leakey 1913-1996
 
Pat Findlay - Dr. Anna C. Roosevelt,, no longer available
 
Carolyn Gebhard - Patty Jo Watson
 
Sasha Jojin - Betty J. Meggers , Biography of a pioneer
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Sara Jones - Bruce D. Smith
 
Wellington King - Heinrich Schliemann: Heros & Mythos
 
Rocco Laurenzo - Julian Steward: An Archaeological Innovator
 
Sally McIver - Dr. Dee Ann Story: An Outstanding and Influential Woman in Archeology
 
Carlos Rico - Stonehenge
 
William Walker - Christos Doumas
 
Ted Weiman - Louis Leakey, Discovering the Secrets of Humankind's Past

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Anthro 304 / ARY 301
Prof. Samuel M. Wilson
Department of Anthropology, The University of Texas

Created 4/21/98. Last revised 4/23/98.