Research Catalog

Title

A history of American archaeology / Gordon R. Willey, Jeremy A. Sabloff.

Author

Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002.

Publication

New York : W.H. Freeman, c1993.

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Additional Authors

Sabloff, Jeremy A.

Description

xiii, 384 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• Indians > Antiquities
• America > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 318-371) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

ch. 1. Introduction -- The nature of archaeology -- Archaeology in World historical perspective -- American archaeology: a definition -- ch. 2. The speculative period (1492-1840) -- The Americas: discovery and origins of the Native Americans -- The early chroniclers and historical interests -- The explorers and the armchair speculators -- The forerunners of an established discipline of archaeology -- An appraisal and signs for the future -- ch. 3. The classificatory-descriptive period (1840-1914) -- Archaeological research in North America -- Archaeological research in Middle America -- Archaeological research in South America -- The development of concepts and methods -- ch. 4. The classificatory-historical period: the concern with chronology (1914-1940) -- The stratigraphic revolution -- Seriation -- Typology and artifact (pottery) classification -- Culture-classification schemes -- The direct-historical approach -- Area synthesis: the goal -- Interareal considerations -- Considerations of the early peopling of the Americas -- Field Methods and Techniques -- Appraisal of Trends -- ch. 5. The classificatory-historical period: the concern with context and function (1940-1960) -- The first dissatisfactions -- Context and function: artifacts as behavior -- Settlement patterns -- Culture and environment -- Scientific aids from other disciplines -- The continued concern with chronology and time-space synthesis -- Historical and developmental concepts -- ch. 6. The modern period: new and continuing ways of explaining and understanding the past (1960-1992) -- The new archaeology -- Some archaeological researches of the 1960s -- Consolidating and broadening the new archaeological agenda -- Mainstream accommodations to the new archaeology -- Postprocessual reactions to the new archaeology.

ISBN

• 0716723700
• 0716723719 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^92035643^

OCLC

• 26853438
• SCSB-10367853

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library