Introduction to Archaeology

Anthro 304 / ARY 301 Spring 1998
Prof. Samuel M. Wilson

Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
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Paper 2: Intellectual Biographies

For this assignment you were asked to write an intellectual biography of an archaeologist. These "intellectual biographies" are 3-5 page biographical essays that focus 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.

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


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