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Murray, Margaret.
Centenary. Antiquity. 1963; 37:92-95.
First steps in archaeology. Antiquity. 1961; 35:8-13.

Patterson, Thomas C.
The last sixty years: toward a social history of Americanist Archaeology in the United States. American Anthropologist. 1986; 88:7-26.

Phillips, Philip and Gordon R. Willey
Method and theory in American archaeology: An operational basis for culture-historical integration. American Anthropologist. 1953; 55(5):615-633.

Redman, Charles L.
In defense of the seventies--The adolescence of New Archaeology. American Anthropologist. 1991; 93:295-307.

Saitta, Dean J.
Radical archaeology and middle-range theory. Antiquity. 1992; 66(253):886-897.

The poverty of philosophy in archaeology. Moore, James A. and Keene, Arthur S., editors. Archaeological Hammers and Theories. New York: Academic Press; 1983; pp. 299-304.

Silverberg, Robert
Great Adventures in Archaeology. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. 1964

Spaulding, Albert C.
Archaeology Theory: 1936. 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; 1983; pp. 19-26.

Stoltman, James B.
The Southeastern United States. Fitting, James E. The development of North American archaeology. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books; 1973; pp. 116-150.

Tax, Thomas G.
The development of American Archaeology, 1800-1879: Department of History, University of Chicago; 1973.

Trigger, Bruce G.
Constraint and freedom - A new synthesis for archeological explanation. American Anthropologist. 1991; 93(3):551-569.
History of archaeological interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1989.

Wandsnider, LuAnn, ed.
Quandaries and Quests: Visions of Archaeology's Future. Edwardsville: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University; 1992(CAI Occasional Paper; 20).

Watson, Patty Jo
Archaeology, anthropology, and the culture concept. American Anthropologist. 1995; 97(4):683-694.

Willey, Gordon R. and Philip Phillips
Method and theory in American Archaeology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1958.

Wright, Henry T.
The evolution of civilizations. Meltzer, David J.; Fowler, Donald D., and Sabloff, Jeremy A., editors. American Archaeology past and future. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1986; pp. 323-365.

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