Rediscovering our past : essays on the history of American archaeology

Abstract

Part 1 The paradigmatic vision of archaeology - archaeology as a bourgeois science models of southwestern prehistory, 1840-1914 a methodology for studying the history of archaeology - an example from Peru (1524-1900) the role of biography in writing the history of archaeology. Part 2 Women in American archaeology - some historical notes and comments being and becoming from the other side of the looking glass - women in American archaeology in the 1950s women of Chaco - then and now exploring career styles in archaeology. Part 3 Sylvanus G. Morley and the Carnegie Institution's program of Mayan research the matter of Saville - Franz Boas and the anthropological definition of archaeology archaeology, politics and boundary-formation - the Boas Censure (1919) and the development of American archaeology during the inter-war years Tello, the Press and Peruvian archaeology effect of pioneers on regional archaeology - the Texas example Harold J. Cook and Jesse D. Figgins - a new perspective on the Folsom discovery. Part 4 Reviewing our post - commentary and discussion.

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