FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Spring 1999
ATTENDANCEBASIC SOURCES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC MATERIAL ON ARCHAEOLOGY
RECENT BOOKS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY
PERIODICALS CONCERNING ARCHAEOLOGY
INTERNET AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY HOMEPAGE
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
OFFICE HOURS: Thursdays 3:00 - 5:00 pm; I will be available during office hours and after class if you have any questions regarding the course material, the department's program in anthropology, or archaeology in general. You can also see me after class and by appointment if office hours conflict with your schedule. Messages can be left in my mailbox in Department of Anthropology Office or contact me by email.
TELEPHONE: 898-2282
COURSE HOME PAGE: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/anth600/syllab99.html
OFFICE: Room 435-436, University Museum
CLASSES: Mondays, 2:00 - 5:00 pm, Room 329, University of Pennsylvania Museum
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS: available at A House of Our Own Bookstore, 3920 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, tel.(215) 222-1576.
Sharer, Robert J. and Wendy Ashmore
1993 Archaeology: Discovering Our Past 2nd edition, Mayfield, Palo Alto.
Preucel, Robert and Ian Hodder editors.
1996 Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: A Reader. Blackwell Publishers, New York.
Anthropology 600: Fundamentals of Archaeology "bulk pack reader" of required readings: will soon be available for purchase at the Copy Center, basement of the Towne Building (Engineering) 220 South 33rd Street.
This course is intended to be a general survey of contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory for first year graduate students. Prior archaeological background is not a prerequisite for this course, although a general understanding of archaeological and anthropological concepts would be useful. In addition to traditional approaches and the now widely-accepted "Processual" perspective of the majority of North American archaeologists, the course will cover alternative theoretical approaches (e.g. Structural, Poststructural, Symbolic, Cognitive, Critical Theory, Contextual, Postprocessual, Marxist, Interpretive, etc.) and critically analyze their potential contributions to the discipline. Specific case studies will be used as examples of the application of different theoretical and methodological approaches as often as possible. Because of the massive amount of material relating to method and theory in archaeology and the limited amount of time available during the semester, the course coverage will be selective, not exhaustive.
The format of the course will be lecture and discussion. Questions may be asked before, during, and after lectures as long as they are not too disruptive. Organized discussion of readings and lecture material will take place after a short introductory lecture by the professor. My goal is to involve all students in lively discussion and debate using a seminar format. Small groups of students will be responsible for introducing the weekly theme and leading the discussion of the required readings for each class session. Groups responsible the weekly readings are encouraged to be innovative in their oral presentations (handouts, charts, debates, graphics, etc.). A list of student groups and dates for assigned themes will be available before the second class meeting.
A considerable number of reading are assigned for this course. A detailed reading syllabus will be provided and may be periodically updated throughout the semester. Two required textbooks have been assigned. A "bulk pack reader" has been assembled for the course that includes a number of important articles on archaeological method and theory. This will be available for purchase at the Copy Center, basement of the Towne Building (Engineering), 220 South 33rd Street. A number of books on archaeological method and theory have been placed on permanent reserve in the Museum Library, 3rd floor of the University Museum, under the course title, Anthropology 600. A list of these books is available at the circulation desk. Weekly reading assignments will come from the texts and the reader. You are encouraged to seek out additional material related to the weekly topics in the Museum Library. You should become familiar with the current journals in archaeology. At times, new materials may be added to the readings. I will informe you of any changes in the readings by email or using the Anthropology 600 home page (still "under construction"). I strongly suggest that the students form study groups to help cover and understand the readings and lectures more efficiently, as this has been an effective strategy in the past.
The course grade will be based on three (3) short papers (each worth 25%), in-class leading of discussions, and general class participation (25%).
Written Papers: Three short papers or essays will be written during the semester. The first assignment will be a review and critique of a recent publication in archaeology in light of the materials covered the first third of the semester (the publication will be assigned by the professor). The second paper will be a review of a published archaeological site report (an approved list of site reports will be distributed later in the semester; site reports not on the list must be approved by professor). The third paper will be an essay on the issue of temporal and spatial scale in archaeology. The goal is to integrate what you have learned from lecture, readings, and discussion and apply this knowledge in the short papers. These papers are not research papers, per se, but you may explore bibliographic materials beyond the assigned materials. You are also encouraged to incorporate insights from what you have learned in the other core courses. I will give more information on the specifics of each paper later in the semester. The papers should be between 5-10 word-processed pages of double-spaced text. Prepare your papers using the American Antiquity style guide for citation and reference format (October 1992 issue; Vol 57, pages 749-770 or October or a copy of the guide is also on the Internet at the Society for American Archaeology Website http://www.saa.org/Publications/ StyleGuide/styframe.html). If you use notes, please put them after the body of the text as "endnotes." References Cited means just that--you should include all and only the references that are actually cited in the paper. References and endnotes should be single-spaced. Please submit two (2) copies of each paper by each due date. I will provide more detailed information on the writing assignments later in the semester.
Students will be expected to show up for all classes, although this is not compulsory. Because the course meets for 3 hours once a week, missing a class or two could negatively affect student performance. Please get the notes from other students if you have to miss a class.
I will be available during office hours and after class if you have any questions regarding the course material, the department's graduate program, or archaeology in general. I also would appreciate your comments, and will be happy to make appointments for other times if my office hours conflict with your schedule.
Anthropology 600
FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Professor Clark L. Erickson
Spring 1999
DATE TOPICS
1/11 Course Orientation
1/18 Archaeology: An Introduction to the Discipline
1/25 Structure and Formation of the Archaeological Record
2/1 Research Design and Data Collection
2/8 Debating Archaeology: Contemporary Theory in Perspective
2/15 Chronology, Classification, and Data Analysis PAPER #1 DUE
2/22 Analogy and Middle-Range Theory
3/1 Environment, Ecology, and Subsistence
3/8 SPRING BREAK
3/15 Cosmology, Ideology, and Cognition PAPER #2 DUE
3/22 Society and Social Structure
3/29 Engendering Archaeology
4/5 Social and Cultural Evolution
4/12 The Past as Power
4/19 Future of Archaeology PAPER #3 DUE
Anthropology 600
FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHAEOLOGY
Professor Clark L. Erickson
Spring 1999
DATE TOPICS
1/11 COURSE ORIENTATION
1/18 ARCHAEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapters 1, 2, and 3; skim Chapter 17
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Bulk Pack Reader:
Begin readings for next week
Optional:
Patterson, Thomas C. 1995 Towards a Social History of Archaeology in the United States. Harcourt Brace, NewYork.
Trigger, Bruce, 1989 A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Willey, Gordon R. and Jeremy A. Sabloff, 1994 A History of American Archaeology. [revised edition] W. H. Freeman, San Francisco.
Claassen, Cheryl ed. 1994 Women in Archaeology. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
1/25 STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 7, 11, and 12
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Bulk Pack Reader:
Flannery, Kent V.1972 Culture History vs. Cultural Process: A Debate in American Archaeology. Contemporary Archaeology: A Guide to Theory and Contributions, edited by Mark Leone, pp. 102-107, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Flannery, Kent V. 1978 Archeology with a Capital S. In Research and Theory in Current Archeology edited by Charles L. Redman, pp. 47-53, John Wiley, New York.
Flannery, Kent V. 1982 The Golden Marshalltown: American Anthropologist 84:265- 278.
Binford, Lewis R. 1962 Archaeology as Anthropology. American Antiquity 28(2):217- 225.
Preucel, Robert 1991 The Philosophy of Archaeology. . IN Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. Edited by Robert Preucel, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 10, Carbondale, pp. 17-29.
Hodder Ian 1995 Symbolism, Meaning, and Context. IN Theory and Practice in Archaeology. Routledge, London, pp. 24-44.
Hodder, Ian 1995 Post-Processual Archaeology. IN Theory and Practice in Archaeology. Routledge, London, pp. 83-91.
Optional:
Preucel, Robert W. 1995 The Postprocessual Condition. Journal of Archaeological Research 3(2):147-175.
2/1 RESEARCH DESIGN AND DATA COLLECTION
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 4, 5, 6, and 18 (skim last chapter)
Bulk Pack Reader:
Binford, Lewis R. 1964 A Consideration of Archaeological Research Design. American Antiquity 29(4):425-441.
Dunnell, Robert C. 1992 The Notion Site. IN Space, Time, and Archaeological Landscapes. Edited by Jacqueline Rossignol and LuAnn Wandsnider, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 21-41.
Hodder, Ian 1997 Always Momentary, Fluid and Flexible: Towards a Reflective Excavation Methodology. Antiquity 71:6921-700
Wylie, Alison 1995 Archaeology and the Antiquities Market: The Use of "Looted" Data. IN Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges of the 1990s. edited by Mark Lynott and Alison Wylie, Society for American Archaeology. Washington DC, pp. 17-21.
Pyburn, K. Anne and Richard R. Wilk 1995 Responsible Archaeology is Applied Archaeology. IN Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges of the 1990s. Edited by Mark Lynott and Alison Wylie, Society for American Archaeology. Washington DC, pp. 71-76.
Fagan, Brian 1996 The Arrogant Archaeologist AND Archaeology's Dirty Secret. IN Archaeological Ethics, edited by Karen Vitelli, Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, pp. 238-243; pp. 247-252
Vitelli, Karen 1996 Appendix A: Statements on Archaeological Ethics from Professional Organizations. IN Archaeological Ethics, edited by Karen Vitelli, Altamira Press, Walnut Creek Pp. 253-225.
2/8 DEBATING ARCHAEOLOGY: CONTEMPORARY THEORY IN PERSPECTIVE
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 3 (skim)
Bulk Pack Reader:
Brumfiel, Elizabeth 1992 Breaking and Entering the Ecosystem: Gender, Class, and Faction Steal the Show. American Anthropologist 94:551-567.
Redman, Charles 1991 In Defense of the Seventies: The Adolescence of New Archeology. American Antiquity 93: 295-307.
Trigger, Bruce G. 1991 Constraint and Freedom: A New Synthesis for Archeological Explanation. American Anthropologist 93:551-569.
Hill, James N. 1991 Archaeology and the Accumulation of Knowledge. . IN Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. Edited by Robert Preucel, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 10, Carbondale, pp. 42-53.
Hodder: Chapter 9 The Processualist Reaction. IN Theory and Practice in Archaeology. Routledge, London, pp. 145-154.
Patterson, Thomas C. 1990 Some Theoretical Tensions within and between the Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 9:189-200.
Optional and Additional Background Readings:
Yoffee, Norman and Andrew Sherratt 1993 Introduction: The Sources of Archaeological Theory. IN Archaeological Theory: Who Sets the Agenda? Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-10.
Shanks, Michael and Ian Hodder 1995 Processual, Postprocessual and Interpretative Archaeologies. IN Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past. Routledge, London, pp. 3-29.
Hodder, Ian 1991 Postprocessual Archaeology and the Current Debate. IN Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies: Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past. Edited by Robert Preucel, Center for Archaeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 10, Carbondale, pp. 30-41.
Trigger, Bruce G. 1991 Post-Processual Developments in Anglo-American Archaeology. Norwegian Archaeological Review 24(2):65-76.
Watson, Patty Jo and Michael Fotiadis 1990 The Razor's Edge: Symbolic-Structuralist Archaeology and the Expansion of Archaeological Inference American Anthropologist 92:613-629.
Hodder, Ian 1991 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Shanks, Michael and Christopher Tilley 1987 Social Theory in Archaeology. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Tilley, Christopher and Michael Shanks 1987 Re-Constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
2/15 CHRONOLOGY, CLASSIFICATION, AND DATA ANALYSIS
PAPER #1 DUE
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 8, 9, 10 (much of this can be skimmed)
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Bulk Pack Reader:
Hill, J. N. and R. K. Evans 1972 A Model for Classification and Typology. In Models in Archaeology, edited by D. L. Clarke, pp. 231-273, Methuen, London.
Wobst, H. Martin 1977 Stylistic Behavior and Information Exchange. In For the Director: Essays in Honor of James B. Griffin, edited by C. E. Cleland, pp. 317-342, Anthropological Paper no. 61, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dunnell, Robert C 1978 Style and Function: A Fundamental Dichotomy. American Antiquity 43:192-202.
Shanks, Michael and Christopher Tilley 1987 "Style and Ideology" Chapter 7 In Reconstructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 137-155.
Optional:
Conkey, M. W. 1990 Experimenting with Style in Archaeology: Some Historical and Theoretical Issues. IN The Uses of Style in Archaeology. Edited by M. W. Conkey and C. A. Hastorf pp. 5-17.
2/22 ANALOGY AND MIDDLE-RANGE THEORY
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 13
Bulk Pack Reader:
Raab, L. Mark and Albert C. Goodyear 1984 Middle-Range Theory in Archaeology: A Critical Review of Origins and Applications. American Antiquity 49:255-268.
DeBoer, Warren 1997 Ceremonial Centres from the Cayapas (Esmeraldas, Ecuador) to Chillicothe (Ohio, USA). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7(2):225-253. (and comments)
Stahl, Ann 1993 Concepts of Time and Approaches to Analogical Reasoning in Historical Perspective. American Antiquity 58(2):235-260.
Lathrap, Donald W. 1983 Recent Studies of Shipibo-Conibo Ceramics and their Archaeological Implications. In Structure and Cognition in Art, edited by Dorothy Washburn, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Optional:
Allen, W. L. and J. B. Richardson III 1971 The Reconstruction of Kinship from Archaeological Data: The Concepts, Methods, and the Feasibility. American Antiquity 36:41-53.
Binford, Lewis R. 1981 Behavioral Archaeology and the Pompeii Premise. Journal of Anthropological Research 37:195-208.
Schiffer, Michael B. 1985 Is there a "Pompeii Premise" in Archaeology? Journal of Anthropological Research 41:18-41.
3/1 ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY, AND SUBSISTENCE
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 11 and 14
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Bulk Pack Reader:
Watson, Patty Jo and Mary C. Kennedy 1990 The Development of Horticulture in the Eastern Woodlands of North America: Women's Role. In Engendering Archaeology: Women in Prehistory. Edited by Joan Gero and Margaret Conkey, Blackwell, London, pp. 255-275.
Optional:
Flannery, Kent V. 1986 The Research Problem. IN Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico. Academic Press, Orlando, pp. 3-18.
3/8 SPRING BREAK
3/15 COSMOLOGY, IDEOLOGY, AND COGNITION
PAPER #2 DUE
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 16, also pp. 95-107 (skim), pp. 564-569 (skim)
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Reader:
Marcus, Joyce and Kent Flannery 1994 Ancient Zapotec Ritual and Religion: An Application of the Direct Historical Approach. In The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. edited by Colin Renfrew and Ezra Zubrow, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 55-73.
Von Gernet, Alexander 1993 The Construction of Prehistoric Ideation: Exploring the Universality-Ideosyncrasy Continuum. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 3(1):67-81.
Optional:
Robb, John E. The Archaeology of Symbols. Annual Review of Anthropology. 27:329-346.
Renfrew, Colin 1994 The Archaeology of Religion. IN The Ancient Mind: Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Edited by Colin Renfrew and Ezra Zubrow, Cambridge U. Press, Cambridge, pp. 47-54.
Hodder, Ian 1984 Burials, Houses, Women and Men in the European Neolithic. In Ideology, Power, and Prehistory. edited by Daniel Miller and Christopher Tilley, Cambridge University Press, pp. 51-68.
3/22 SOCIETY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 15
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Bulk Pack Reader:
Crumley, Carole 1995 Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies. In Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies. Edited by Robert Ehrenreich, Carole Crumley, and Janet Levy, Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 6. Pp. 1-5.
Peregrine, Peter 1996 Introduction: World-Systems Theory and Archaeology. IN Pre-Columbian World Systems. Edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Gary Feinman, Prehistory Press, Madison, pp. 1-10.
Peregrine, Peter 1996 Hyperopia or Hyperbole? The Mississippian World-System. IN Pre-Columbian World Systems. Edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Gary Feinman, Prehistory Press, Madison, pp. 39-49.
McIntosh, Roderick 1991 Early Urban Clusters in China and Africa: The Arbitration of Social Ambiguity. Journal of Field Archaeology 18:199-212.
3/29 ENGENDERING ARCHAEOLOGY
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology: pp. 437-539
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Bulk Pack Reader:
Conkey, Margaret W. and Janet Spector 1984 Archaeology and the Study of Gender. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, edited by Michael Schiffer, volume 7:1-38, Academic Press, Orlando.
Optional:
Conkey, M. W. and Joan Gero. 1997 Programme to practice: Gender and Feminism in Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology. 26:411-437.
Meskell, L. 1995 Goddesses, Gimbutas and "New Age" Archaeology. Antiquity 69:74-86.
Conkey, M. and R. Tringham 1994 Archaeology and the Goddess: Exploring the Contours of Feminist Archaeology. IN Feminisms in the Academy: Rethinking Disciplines. Edited by D. C. Stanton and A. J. Steward, pp. 199-247.
Wylie, Alison 1997 The Engendering of Archaeology: Refiguring Feminist Science Studies. In Women, Gender, and Science: New Directions. Edited by Sally G. Kohlstedt and Helen Longino. Special issue of Osiris, pp. 80-99.
Gero, Joan and Margaret Conkey eds. 1990 Engendering Archaeology. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Bacus, Elisabeth et al. 1993 A Gendered Past: A Critical Bibliography of Gender in Archaeology. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Technical Report No. 25, Ann Arbor.
Nelson, Sarah Milledge 1997 Gender in Archaeology: Analyzing Power and Prestige. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, Ca.
4/5 SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 17; also 109-112.
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Bulk Pack Reader:
Flannery, Kent V. 1972 The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 2:399-426.
Shanks, Michael and Christopher Tilley. 1987 Chapter 6: Social Evolution and Societal Change. In Social Theory and Archaeology. By M. Shanks and C. Tilley, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, pp. 137-185
Optional:
Sanderson, Stephen 1990 Social Evolutionism: A Critical History. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Johnson, A. W. and T. Earle. 1987 The Evolution of Human Societies. Stanford U. Press, Stanford.
Barton, C. M. and G. A. Clark eds. 1997 Rediscovering Darwin: Evolutionary Theory and Archaeological Explanation. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, No. 7.
4/12 THE PAST AS POWER
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology (no readings on this week's topic)
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Reader:
McIntosh, Roderick, Susan K. McIntosh, and Tereba Togola 1996 People without History. IN Archaeological Ethics. Edited by Karen Vitelli, Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, Ca., pp. 185-197 (originally published in Archaeology 42(1):74-81).
Fowler, D. D. 1987 Uses of the Past: Archaeology in the Service of the State. American Antiquity 52:229-248.
Optional:
Wilk, Richard R. 1985 The Ancient Maya and the Political Present. Journal of Anthropological Research 41(3):307-326.
Kohl, Philip L.1998 Nationalism and Archaeology: On the Construction of Nations and the Reconstruction of the Remote Past. Annual Review of Anthropology 27:223-246.
4/19 FUTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
PAPER #3 DUE
Texts:
Sharer and Ashmore: Archaeology Chapter 18; also pp. 575-577, pp. 602-605
Preucel and Hodder: Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Bulk Pack Reader:
Zimmerman, Larry 1995 Regaining our Nerve: Ethics, Values, and the Transformation of Archaeology. IN Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges of the 1990s. edited by Mark Lynott and Alison Wylie, Society for American Archaeology. Washington DC, pp.64-67.
Trigger, Bruce 1980 Archaeology and the Image of the American Indian. American Antiquity 45(4):662-676.
Meighan, Clement 1994 Burying American Archaeology. Archaeology 47:(6):64,66, 68.
Zimmerman, Larry J. 1994 Sharing Control of the Past. Archaeology 47(2):65, 67, 68.
Klesert, Anthony and Shirley Powell 1993 A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy. American Antiquity 58(2):348-354.
Optional:
Ferguson, T. J. 1996 Native Americans and the Practice of Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology. 25:63-79.
Rose, J., T. J. Green, and V. D. Green 1996 NAGPRA is Forever: Osteology and the Repatriation of Skeletons. Annual Review of Anthropology. 25:81-103.
McGuire, Randall 1992 Archaeology and the First Americans. American Anthropologist 94:816-836.
Meighan, Clement W. 1992 Some Scholars' views on Reburial. American Antiquity 57(4):704-710.
Goldstein, I. and K. Kintigh 1990 Ethics and the Reburial Controversy. American Antiquity 55:585-591.
Lynott, Mark J. and Alison Wylie eds.1995 Ethics in American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s. Society for American Archaeology, Special Report, Washington DC.
Anthropology 600
Fundamentals of Archaeology
Spring 1999
Professor Erickson
BASIC SOURCES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC MATERIAL ON ARCHAEOLOGY
Sharer and Ashmore text
articles in bulk pack reader for Anthropology 600
Additional basic textbook sources:
Fagan, Brian
1994 In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology. 8th edition, Harper-Collins, New York [older editions are not as useful]
Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn
1994 Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice. Thames and Hudson, New York [second edition]
Schiffer, Michael ed.
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Academic Press, New York. [many volumes]
Schiffer, Michael ed.
Archaeological Method and Theory. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque [new series, several volumes]
Thomas, David H.
1998 Archaeology 3nd edition, Harcourt Brace.
Webster, David L., Susan T. Evans, and William T. Sanders
1993 Out of the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology. Mayfield, Mountain View, Ca.
Anthropology 600
Fundamentals of Archaeology
Spring 1999
Professor Erickson
PERIODICALS CONCERNING ARCHAEOLOGY
I strongly encourage all graduate students to periodically browse the fine collection of current archaeology-related journals that the University Museum Library receives. It is important to keep up with the advances in the discipline, a basic part of professionalism.
Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory (1978-1987)
Advances in World Archaeology
African Archaeological Review
American Archaeology
American Antiquity
American Anthropologist
Annual Review of Anthropology
Ancient Mesoamerica
Antiquity
Archaeological Dialogues
Archaeological Method and Theory (1987-present)
Archaeological Review from Cambridge
Archaeology
Archaeology in Oceania
Archaeology of Eastern North America
Australian Archaeology
Bulletin of the Society for American Archaeology
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Cambridge Review of Archaeology
Current Anthropology
Economic Botany
Florida Anthropologist
Geoarchaeology
Geoscience and Man
Historical Archaeology
Internet Archaeology
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (since 1994)
Journal of Archaeological Research
Journal of Archaeological Science
Journal of the British Archaeological Association
Journal of European Archaeology
Journal of World Prehistory
Journal of Alabama Archaeology
Journal of Material Culture
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
Journal of Ethnobiology
Journal of Field Archaeology
Journal of World Prehistory
Kiva
Latin American Antiquity
Man
Man in the Northeast
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
Mississippi Archaeology
Missouri Archaeologist
North American Archaeologist
Norwegian Archaeological Review
Oxford Journal of Archaeology
Plains Anthropologist
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society
Quarterly Review of Archaeology
Quarterly Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Virginia
Quarterly Review of Archaeology (Oxford)
Quaternary Research
RES
Scottish Archaeological Review
Southeastern Archaeology
Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Newsletter
The Review of Archaeology
Tennessee Anthropologist
World Archaeology
Internet and the World Wide Web:
Anthropology 600
Fundamentals of Archaeology
Spring 1999
Professor Erickson
RECENT BOOKS ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL THEORY
Bacus, Elisabeth et al.
1993 A Gendered Past: A Critical Bibliography of Gender in Archaeology. University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology Technical Report no. 25, Ann Arbor.
Bapty, Ian and Tim Yates editors
1990 Archaeology after Structuralism. Routledge, London.
Binford, Lewis
1978 Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology. Academic Press, New York.
Binford, Lewis
1989 Debating Archaeology. Academic Press, New York.
Clarke, David
1978 Analytical Archaeology. Columbia University Press, New York. [2nd edition]
Claassen, Cheryl ed.
1994 Women in Archaeology. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
Conkey, M. and C. Hastorf eds.
1990 The Use of Style in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Courbin, Paul
1988 What is Archaeology?. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Embree, Lester ed.
1992 Metaarchaeology: Reflections by Archaeologists and Philosophers. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
Flannery, Kent
1986 Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca. Academic Press, New York.
Gardin, Jean-Claude and Christopher Peebles eds.
1992 Representations in Archaeology. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
Gathercole, Peter and David Lowenthal eds.
1990 The Politics of the Past. Unwin Hyman, Winchester, MA.
Gero, Joan M. David M. Lacy and Michael Blakey eds.
1983 Sociopolitics of Archaeology. Dept. of Anthropology Research Report no. 23, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Gero, Joan and Margaret W. Conkey
1991 Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Gibbon, Guy
1984 Anthropological Archaeology. Columbia University Press, New York.
Gibbon, Guy
1989 Explanation in Archaeology. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Gould, Richard
1980 Living Archaeology Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian
1982 The Present Past. Pica Press, New York.
Hodder, Ian ed.
1988 The Meaning of Things. Unwin-Hyman, Winchester, MA.
Hodder, Ian
1991 Reading the Past, [second edition] Cambridge University Press, New York.
Hodder, Ian ed.
1982 Symbolic and Structural Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian
1982 Symbols in Action: Ethnoarchaeological Studies of Material Culture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Hodder, Ian
1992 The Domestication of Europe. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
Hodder, Ian
1992 Theory and Practice in Archaeology. Routledge, London.
Hodder, Ian
1995 Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past. Routledge, London.
Jones, Sian
1997 The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the past and Present. Routledge, London.
Kelley, Jane H. and Marsha P. Hanen
1988 Archaeology and the Methodology of Science. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Kent, Susan
1984 Analyzing Activity Areas: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of the Use of Space. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Kramer, Carol
1982 Village Ethnoarchaeology: Rural Iran in Archaeological Perspective. Academic Press, New York.
Lamberg-Karlowsky, C.C. ed.
1990 Archaeological Thought in America. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Leone, Mark and Parker B. Potter eds.
1988 Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC.
Lynott, Mark J. and Alison Wylie eds.
1995 Ethnics in American Archaeology: Challenges for the 1990s. Society for American Archaeology, Special Report, Washington DC.
McGuire, Randall
1992 A Marxist Archaeology. Academic Press, Orlando.
Meltzer, David J., Don Fowler, and Jeremy Sabloff eds.
1986 American Archaeology Past and Future. Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington D.C.
Miller, Daniel and Christopher Tilley
1984 Ideology, Power and Prehistory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Nelson, Sarah Milledge
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