This bibliography of the history of archaeology has been assembled for the History of Archaeology Project
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Bibliography of the History of Archaeology
Binford, Lewis R.
In pursuit of the future. 1986. pp. 459-479 in Meltzer, David J.; Fowler, Donald D., and Sabloff, Jeremy A., editors. American Archaeology past and future. Washington, D.C.: Smithson Institution Press.
Browman, David L. and Douglas R. Givens. 1996. Stratigraphic excavation: The first "new archaeology." American Anthropologist 98(1):80-95.
Daniel, Glyn. 1981. A Short History of Archaeology. London: Thames and Hudson.
Daniel, Glyn. 1976. A Hundred and Fifty Years of Archaeology. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Daniel, Glyn (ed.). 1981. Towards a History of Archaeology. London: Thames and Hudson.
Daniel, Glyn and Colin Renfrew. 1987. The Idea of Prehistory. New York: Columbia University Press.
David, Nicholas C.. 1992. Integrating ethnoarchaeology: A subtle realist perspective. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 11:330-359.
Fagan, Brian. 1996. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fitting, James E. 1968. Contributions to Michigan Archaeology. Halsey, John R. and Wobst, H. Martin, editors. Anthropological Papers. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Fitting, James E. 1973. The Development of North American Archaeology. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books.
Flinn, Mark and et al. 1994. Evolution and culture turf wars: History, mind, and/or ecology? Journal of Anthropological Research 50(3):327-333.
Ford, Richard I. 1974. Northeastern Archaeology: past and future directions. Annual Review of Anthropology 3:385-413.
Hassler, Robert C. 1989. The Effects of CRM: A Sociohistorical Perspective of the Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Plains Anthropologist 34(124):111-128.
Jaroslav, Malina and Zdenek Vasicek 1990. Archaeology Yesterday and Today: The Development of Archaeology in the Sciences and Humanities. Translated from Czechoslovakian, by Marek Zvelebil. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Junker, Klaus 1998 Research under dictatorship: the German Archaeological Institute 1929-1945. Antiquity 72:282-292.
Lyman, R. L. and Michael J. O'Brien 1999 Americanist Stratigraphic Excavation and the Measurement of Culture Change. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 6(1):55-108.
Marlowe, Greg 1999 Year One: Radiocarbon dating and American archaeology, 1947-1948. American Antiquity 64(1):9-32.
McKern, Will C. 1939. The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an aid to archaeological culture study. American Antiquity 4(4):301-313.
Meltzer, David J., Jeremy A. Sabloff, and Donald D. Fowler, eds. 1986. American Archaeology past and future. Washington, D.C.: Smithson Institution Press.
Moore, James A. and Arthur S. Keene. 1983. Archaeological Hammers and Theories. New York: Academic Press; 1983.
Moore, John H.. 1981. Evolution and Historical Reductionism. Plains Anthropologist 26(94):261-269.
Murray, Margaret. 1963. Centenary. Antiquity 37:92-95.
Murray, Margaret. 1961. First steps in archaeology. Antiquity. 1961; 35:8-13.
Patterson, Thomas C. 1986. The last sixty years: toward a social history of Americanist Archaeology in the United States. American Anthropologist 88:7-26.
Phillips, Philip and Gordon R. Willey. 1953. Method and theory in American archaeology: An operational basis for culture-historical integration. American Anthropologist 55(5):615-633.
Redman, Charles L. 1991. In defense of the seventies--The adolescence of New Archaeology. American Anthropologist 93:295-307.
Saitta, Dean J. 1992. Radical archaeology and middle-range theory. Antiquity 66(253):886-897.
Saitta, Dean J. The poverty of philosophy in archaeology. pp. 299-304 in Moore, James A. and Keene, Arthur S., editors. Archaeological Hammers and Theories. New York: Academic Press.
Silverberg, Robert. 1964. Great Adventures in Archaeology. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Spaulding, Albert C. 1983. Archaeology Theory: 1936. pp. 19-26 In Dunnell, Robert C. and Grayson, Donald K., editors. Lulu Linear Punctated: Essays in Honor of George Irving Quimby. Ann Arbor: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.
Stoltman, James B. 1973. The Southeastern United States. pp. 116-150 in Fitting, James E. The development of North American archaeology. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books.
Tax, Thomas G. 1973. The development of American Archaeology, 1800-1879: Department of History, University of Chicago.
Trigger, Bruce G. 1991. Constraint and freedom - A new synthesis for archeological explanation. American Anthropologist 93(3):551-569.
Trigger, Bruce G. 1989. History of Archaeological Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wandsnider, LuAnn, ed. 1992. Quandaries and Quests: Visions of Archaeology's Future. Edwardsville: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University. (CAI Occasional Paper; 20).
Watson, Patty Jo. 1995. Archaeology, anthropology, and the culture concept. American Anthropologist 97(4):683-694.
Willey, Gordon R. and Philip Phillips. 1958. Method and theory in American Archaeology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Winslow, Diane Lynne and Wedding, Jeffrey R. 1997. Georgia Wheeler is still alive (and we have her voice on tape). Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 40(1):140-150
Wright, Henry T. 1986. The evolution of civilizations. pp. 323-365 in Meltzer, David J.; Fowler, Donald D., and Sabloff, Jeremy A., editors. American Archaeology Past and Future. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.


