Introduction to Archaeology
Anthro 304 / ARY 301 Spring 1997Prof. Samuel M. Wilson
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
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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.
- Annie Airaudi
- -- Dancing, Language, and Racism--the Passions of Franz Boas
- Bill Baird
- Richard MacNeish- A Brief Archaeological Biography.
- 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, Archaeology of the Amazon.
- Carolyn Gebhard
- Patty Jo Watson
- Sasha Jojin
- Betty J. Meggers , Biography of a pioneer.
- 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.
- Annie Airaudi