Sue Child

Biographic Data

ID3994053
NAMESue Child
GIVEN NAMESSue
FAMILY NAMEChild
SIGNATURECHILD S
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Department of the Interior
ORCID0000-0002-3322-1155
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS48
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX3

  • A Collections-Based View of the Future of Archaeology

    Open AccessJenna Domeischel, Sue ChildARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2024References: 5

    This theme issue has two primary goals: to illuminate the underdeveloped or faltering areas of the discipline as they relate to archaeological collections and to offer tangible paths forward to address the systemic problems identified as they impact the future of archaeology. Present-day archaeology is complicated due to its many sectors of practice: academia/faculty; cultural resource management; federal, state, and local government; tribal gove…

  • A Survey of How Archaeological Repositories Are Managing Digital Associated Records and Data: A Byte of the Reality Sandwich

    Open AccessSara Rivers Cofield, Sue Child et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2024Cited by: 2References: 3

    Archaeologists are taught about the importance of professional recordation and our ethical obligations to those associated records and data. These teachings imply that practitioners are meeting a professional standard of recordation that will stand the test of time, but the ongoing digital revolution is changing the way records and data are created and preserved. Best practices for the management and use of digital archaeological records have bee…

  • A Checklist for Sustainable Management of Archaeological Collections

    Open AccessSue Child, Danielle M BendenARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2017Cited by: 10References: 14

    The discipline of archaeology has been tolerating, at best, a “curation crisis” for decades that is unsustainable. The many issues related to long-term collections care continue to worsen. To counter this trend, we advocate that planning for collections be integrated into project administration from inception such that the management of archaeological collections begins before fieldwork and continues well after recovered collections reach the rep…

  • Ethnoarchaeological and Historical Methods

    Louise Iles, Sue Child et al.CHAPTERArchaeometallurgy in Global…2014

  • Repository Fees for Archaeological Collections Trends and Issues over a Decade of Study

    Sue Child, Child et al.ARTICLEHeritage & Society2010Cited by: 3

  • Consulting records management oracles—a Delphi in practice

    Open AccessJulie Mcleod, Sue Child et al.ARTICLEArchives and Museum Informatics2007

  • A literature review to explore integrated care for older people

    Open AccessJan Reed, Glenda Cook et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2005

    PURPOSE: This paper reports on some of the findings of a literature review commissioned to explore integrated care for older people. METHODS: The process of revising included finding and selecting literature from multidisciplinary sources, and encompassed both published papers and 'grey' literature, i.e. material which had not been reviewed for publication. RESULTS: The study found that thinking has moved on from a focus on the problems of access…

  • ‘Find the ekijunjumira’

    Sue ChildCHAPTERSocial Approaches To An…2002

    In our days of industrialization, permanent mining communities are commonly characterized as isolated and self-contained (e.g. Godoy 1985), although their constant need for supplies, information and transportation requires outside interaction (Hardesty 1988). These communities are seen to contain a large and highly specialized workforce of men who work full-time and for wages on ore extraction. Various processes to win metal from the ore are usua…

  • Ancient African Metallurgy: The Socio-Cultural Context

    Colleen E Kriger, Michael S Bisson et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2001

    Gold. Copper. Iron. Metal working in Africa has been the subject of both popular lore and extensive archaeological investigation. In this volume, four leading archaeologists attempt to provide a complete synthesis of current debates and understandings: When, how and where was metal first introduced to the continent? How were iron and copper tools, implements, and objects used in everyday life, in trade, in political and cultural contexts? What ro…

  • Gender in African Prehistory

    Sue Child, S Terry Childs et al.REVIEWJournal of Field Archaeology1999Cited by: 1

  • Social Identity and Craft Specialization among Toro Iron Workers in Western Uganda

    Open AccessTerry Child, Sue ChildARTICLEArcheological Papers of the…1998Cited by: 6References: 20

    This ethnographic case study focuses on part-time independent specialists who mined iron ore, smelted ore into raw iron, and forged raw iron into objects in the pre-colonial and early colonial polity of Toro in western Uganda. Since a small sub-set of these iron workers were also attached to the Toro omukdma, or king, the social identities of Toro iron workers in different contexts are explored. Essential to both the effective practice of their c…

  • The Sounds and Colors of Power: The Sacred Metallurgical Technology of Ancient West Mexico by Dorothy Hosler

    Terry Child, Sue Child et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1997

    TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE Book Reviews 503 vances. This leads him into the erroneous statement that “improve­ ments [in the West] in gun-making between the Napoleonic and Crimean Wars had been only marginal” (p. 298). Perhaps a second edition, which will surely be merited, will remove such blemishes and allow some new English language work (such as recent writing by Uchida Hoshimi, Nakaoka Tetsuro, Yuzawa Takeshi, Abo Tetsuo, and Kuwahara Tetsuya) t…

  • The Sounds and Colors of Power: The Sacred Metallurgical Technology of Ancient West Mexico

    Terry Child, Sue Child et al.REVIEWTechnology and Culture1997

    Part 1 The perspective and the region: an overview of Mesoamerican prehistory the West Mexican metalworking zone South American contacts in West Mexico the research agenda. Part 2 Resources, metals and alloys: distribution of native metals and ore minerals in the metalworking zone ore types used in West Mexican metallurgy documentary evidence for ancient mining. Part 3 Period 1 of West Mexican metalworking - AD 600 to AD 1200/1300: the technologi…

  • Indigenous African Metallurgy: Nature and Culture

    Sue Child, S Terry Childs et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Anthropology1993

    Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More

  • Style, technology, and iron smelting furnaces in Bantu-speaking Africa

    Open AccessSue Child, S Terry ChildsARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…1991

  • Innovation and industry during the Early Iron Age in East Africa: The KM2 and KM3 sites of northwest Tanzania

    Open AccessPeter R Schmidt, Sue Child et al.ARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review1985Cited by: 26References: 12

  • Is Prudden's Unit Type of Anasazi Settlement Valid and Reliable

    Open AccessFrederick J E Gorman, Sue Child et al.ARTICLENorth American Archaeologist1982References: 12

    Validity and reliability assessments of established anthropological concepts are rare. In this paper we assess the soundness and dependability of one of the oldest concepts of Southwestern prehistory. T. Mitchell Prudden associated a distinctive kind of Anasazi settlement, the unit type, with a particular form of social organization in 1914. Since then, his idea has played a prominent role in Anasazi archaeological theories. These formulations ar…