Introduction to Archaeology
Anthro 304 / ARY 301 Spring 1997Prof. Samuel M. Wilson
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
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Second Paper
Please tell me the URL of your paper by class time on March 20th. You must also let me know what topic you have chosen by Friday March 7th. email me...Primary assignment: 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.
Here are a few resources you might find useful:
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Your text books
UTCAT
Social Sciences Indexes and Abstracts from the UT Library
The Encyclopedia Britannica online
Willey, Gordon R.
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1988 Portraits in American Archaeology. University of New Mexico Press. [This contains biographies of 16 eminent scholars, most whose careers spanned the mid-20th century. They recount Professor Willey's personal interactions with these men (and they all are...) in very interesting and readable ways. E 175.45 W55 1989 PCL Stacks]
Willey, G. R. and Jeremy A. Sabloff.
- 1974 A history of American archaeology. London, Thames and Hudson. E 61 W67 1974 PCL Stacks
Trigger, Bruce G.
- 1989 A history of archaeological thought. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University
Press. CC 100 T75 1989 PCL Stacks [very good, and not so U.S.-centered]
Secondary assignment: If you do not wish to explore the intellectual histories of an archaeologist, you can put together a 3-5 page report on an archaeological site. This report should at a minimum contain discussions of the following things -- the site's description, the chronology of the site (who lived there and when), its history of research, the archaeologists involved in research there, the questions they were exploring. You should provide pictures and maps if possible (we'll talk about how to do this), and a bibliography of published works about the site. Names of Sites.