Douglas R Givens
Biographic Data
| ID | 147473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas R Givens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Givens |
| SIGNATURE | GIVENS D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Community College of Philadelphia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 81 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Role of Biography in Writing the History of Archaeology (1992)
The history of any discipline involves the explanation of its past and how the past has influenced its development through time. Its ‘objects are events which have finished happening, and conditions no longer in existence. Only when they are no longer perceptible do they become objects of historical thought’ (Collingwood 1946: 233). Writing the history of archaeology involves the analysis of past events and of the contributions that individual ar…
Resources for the History of Archaeology
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
BibIiographic/ArchivaI Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Resources for the History of Archaeology
considerable amount of additional information is available in the form of unpublisbed field notes and smaller reports, but without a synthesis of the implications of the sum of this unpublished research, it is difficult for historic preservation and funding agencies to make a realistic asses sment of research proposals ofthe results of ongoing and futore archaeology, and for the general fieldworker to under stand the implications of his or her da…
Death Notices of Colleagues
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
A Short History of the Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
As my tenure as Editor of the Bulletin ofthe History of Archaeology (BHA) draws to a close (31 December 2002),I think it useful to the readership that I provide a very brief history of the BRA covering its inception, early years, and my aspirations for its future. The BHA was just a passing idea in my mind in 1990 when I organized an Advanced Seminar held at the School of American Search (SAR) in Santa Fe,New Mexico (14-18 July 1990), concerning …
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
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Opening the Museum
Rubie Watson, the Williarn and Muriel Howells Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, has put together an excellent little volume covering the history of the opening ofthe Peabody Museum ofArchaeology and Ethnology
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Resources for the History of Archaeology
volume by Kaulicke often deliberately avoids duplication of the discussions by Rowe. Thus the two should be used in tandem to obtain the clearest picture of the contributions of Uhle to the develop ment of Americanist archaeology
Death Notices of Colleagues
Resources for the History of Archaeology
Part Two ofTIm Murray's Encyclopedia of Archaeology has appeared. This part of Murray 's effort is titled ''History and Discovery" and is in three volumes
Death Notices of Colleagues
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Bringing Back the Past
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
strategy, veering away from Steward's more 'settlement-natural environmental' focus to his own more 'settlement social organizational' focus
Death Notices of Colleagues Engaged in Writing the History of Archaeology
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
Death Notices of Colleagues Engaged in Writing the History of Archaeology
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
Assembling the Past
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Stratigraphic Excavation
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strategy, veering away from Steward's more 'settlement-natural environmental' focus to his own more 'settlement social organizational' focus
Death Notices of Colleagues Engaged in Writing the History of Archaeology
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Relationships. Disappearance of the Ancient Desert Peoples, by Extinction, by Dispersion, by Amalgamation. Was Arr ested Development Inevitable?" Even with its drawbacks. hardly surprising in work done nearly a century ago, Hewett raises important questions and exam;nes the archaeological record with a surprisingly modern point of view. If it had been published promptly in English it would have been a landmark in South western archaeology instead…
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Current Research
researches and knowledge of others and to describe what we already knew about human beings. But. without identification and preservation there would be no records to study and the advancement of anthropological sciences would certainly be retanJed
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
Discourse on the History of Archaeology
This space is usually reserved for an outstanding short article on some facet of research in the history of archaeology. However, with this first issue, we list the names and addresses of Associate Editors so that correspondence relating to the history of archaeology may be sent directly to Associate Editors representing various geographic regions
Current Research
The Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico is currently engaged in several projects-to inventory archaeological collections of historical interest.Inc. luded are the survey colle' ctions of H.P. Mera, collected during the 1920s and 1930s in New Mexico and Arizona, and the clay samples of _ the pioneering ceramic analyst Anna O
Current Research
on the History of Archaeology, Andrew Christenson has begun a database (dBase 111+) of significant Americanist archaeologists
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
Notices of the Death of Colleagues
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Portraits in American Archaeology
"Doctoral Research in Cambridge (1922- 1987)" , Archaeological Review from Cambridge, edited by Sarah Taylor, Occasional Paper I, Department of Archaeology, Cambridge University, Spring 1989
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
The In ternational Dictionary of Anthropologists is a valuable reference tool for personal and institutional libraries.The volume contains detailed short essays about the lives and careers of 725 anthropologists and archaeologists.Garland
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Is It Worth Saving
[Historical] objects are events which have finished happening, and conditions [are] no longer in existence. Only when they are no longer perceptible do they become objects of historical thought" (Collingwood 1946:233).Scholars engaged in research in the history of anthropology and archaeology have long been aware of the deplorable conditions in which records as to anthropology's development in time are found and stored. All too often the research…
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
Archoeology and the Methodology of Science does not intended to be a history of archaeology. The history it is concerned with is the history of the philosophy of science, and that only insofar as its presentation clarifies meanings and iss ues in contemporary understanding of the nature of science. For a reader unfam iliar with the history of science, the boo k will be helpful, although Guy Gibbon's 1989 Explanation in Archaeology is a more focus…
Current Research
researches and knowledge of others and to describe what we already knew about human beings. But. without identification and preservation there would be no records to study and the advancement of anthropological sciences would certainly be retanJed
Oral History Index
Meckler Corporation has done a great service to those of us interested in using the vehicle of oral history of aid in the writing of the history of archaeology. There are close to 2000 entries in the volume. Among the entries there are a few archaeologists listed from North America
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Current Research
A Guide to the University Museum Archives. University of Pennsylvania, prepared by Mary Elizabeth Ruwell and the staff of the University Museum Archives., The University Museum, University of Pennsylv…
This book will be quite useful to researchers in the history of archaeology who find that The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania a repository for materials that they need or wish to consult. The holdings of the University Museum Archives listed in this publication are organized according to a signed record group/geographic location
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
Bibliographic/Archival Material Relating to the History of Archaeology
At the same lime, the field of archaeology iL'!elf has developed greater sophistication and requires more in-deprh instruction at borh graduate and undergraduate levels. If anythiii g, the departmeri t has taken a swing baek in the direction of the Social Sciences, particularly in its theoretical stance. But probably nOl one of the archaeology faculty would go so far 8.c; to subscribe to the notion that "archaeolob'Y is anthropology or it is noth…
Guide to the National Anthropological Archives
The historian of archaeological science will find this volume an indispensable source for culling research materials from the National Anthropological Archives. The Guide is "an overview of the documentation in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, concerning Native Americans and other cultural groups
Activities of Various Academic Gatherings Related to the History of Archaeology
are not mentioned in this history but it is worth noting that besides his welllcnown pioneerin g excavation of a burial mOWtd in 1784 he sent out a circular l for the APS to secure informati on on archaeological remains, Slating, "The American Philosophical Society have [sic] always considered the antiquity, changes. and present state of their own country as primary objects of their research" (quoted in Willey and Sabloff. A Hi story of AmericanA…
Current Research
Qf JbesisAn iotemalist approa ch to Clark's early publications from 1927 to 1939 is used to examine bis goals, methods, and assumptions.defmitions of archaeology, imm ediate academic influences, and intellectual change.Defining arcbaeoIogy as "the study of past distribution of culture-traits in time and space, and of the factors governing their distribution, n Clack was especially astute when fulfillin g the first part of this defmition (Clack 19…
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