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
- 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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