Binford, Lewis R.
1962 Archaeology as anthropology. American Antiquity 28:217-225. (Reprinted in Binford 1972, pp.
20-32, and Leone, ed., 1972, pp. 93-101.)*
1968a Archaeological perspectives. In Binford & Binford, eds., pp. 5-32. (Reprinted in Binford 1972,
pp. 78- 104.)

Flannery, Kent V.
1967 Culture history v. cultural process: a debate in American archaeology. Scientific American
217(no. 2, August):119-122. (Reprinted in Leone, ed., 1972, pp. 102-107.)

Trigger, Bruce
1968a Major concepts of archaeology in historical perspective. Man (n.s.)3:527-541.*
(Reprinted in Trigger 1978, Ch. 6, pp. 96-114. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.)

Clarke, David L.
1972 Models and paradigms in contemporary archaeology. In Clarke, ed., 1972, pp. 1-60.
1973 Archaeology: the loss of innocence. Antiquity 47:6-18.

Readings for Week 3 - The Debate Continues & Middle Range Theory

Trigger, Bruce
1978 Current trends in American archaeology. In Trigger 1978, Ch. 1, pp. 1-18. Edinburgh:
Edinburgh University Press.

Flannery, Kent V.
1982 The golden Marshalltown. American Anthropologist 84:265-278.*§

Hodder, Ian
1991 Post-processual archaeology.  In Hodder 1991, Reading the past. 2nd ed., Ch. 8, pp.
156-193.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Chippindale, Christopher
1993 Ambition, deference, discrepancy, consumption: the intellectual background to a
post-processual archaeology. In Archaeological theory: who sets the agenda? Yoffee & Sherratt,
eds., pp. 27-36. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rabb, L. Mark, & Albert C. Goodyear
1984 Middle-range theory in archaeology: a critical review of origins and applications. American
Antiquity 42:255-268.*‡

Trigger, Bruce G.
1995 Expanding middle-range theory. Antiquity 69:449-458.‡

Bradley, Richard
1993 Archaeology: the loss of nerve. In Archaeological theory: who sets the agenda? Yoffee & Sherratt,
eds., pp. 131-133. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Trigger, Bruce G.
1991 Distinguished lecture in archeology: constraint and freedom--a new synthesis for archaeological
explanation. American Anthropologist 93:551-569.*§ 

Shanks, Michael, & Ian Hodder
1998 Processual, postprocessual and interpretive archaeologies. In Reader in Archaeological
Theory: Post-Processual and Cognitive Approaches, David S. Whitley, ed., pp. 69-95. London: Routledge.

Trigger, Bruce G.
1998 Archaeology and epistemology: dialoguing across the Darwinian chasm. American Journal
of Archaeology 102:1-34.

VanPool, Christine S., & Todd L. VanPool
1999 The scientific nature of postprocessualism. American Antiquity 64:33-53.*

Readings for Week 5 - The Role of Evolutionary Theory

Duke, Philip
1995 Working through theoretical tensions in contemporary archaeology: a practical attempt from
southwestern Colorado. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 2:201-229.

Fogelin, Lars
2007  Inference to the best explanation:  a common and effective form of archaeological reasoning.  American
Antiquity 72:603-625.

White, Leslie A.
1959 The concept of evolution in cultural anthropology. In Meggers, ed., 1959, pp. 106-125.‡

Steward, Julian H.
1960 Review of The Evolution of Culture (White). American Anthropologist 62:144-148.*§‡

Ruyle, Eugene E.
1973 Genetic and cultural pools: Some suggestions for a unified theory of biocultural evolution.
Human Ecology 1:201-215.‡

Schiffer, Michael B.
1996 Some relationships between behavioral and evolutionary archaeologies. American Antiquity
61:643-662.*‡

Readings for Week 6 - More on Evolutionary Theory & Ecology

Boone, James L., & Eric Alden Smith
1998 Is it evolution yet? (with comments). Current Anthropology 39 (supplement):S141-S173.*‡

O'Brien, Michael J., R. Lee Lyman, & Robert D. Leonard
1998 Basic incompatabilities between evolutionary and behavioral archaeology. American Antiquity
63:485-498.*‡

Broughton, Jack M., & James F. O'Connell
1999 On evolutionary ecology, selection archaeology, and behavioral archaeology. American
Antiquity 64:153-165.*‡

Schiffer, Michael B.
1999 Behavioral archaeology: some clarifications. American Antiquity 64:166-168.*‡

Bamforth, Douglas B.
2002  Evidence and metaphor in evolutionary archaeology.  American Antiquity 67:435-452.*

Clark, Grahame
1953 The economic approach to prehistory. Proceedings of the British Academy 39:215-238.
[Reprinted in Clark 1989:149-168.]‡

Readings for Week 7 - Ecological Approaches & Settlement Patterns

Jochim, Michael A.
1979 Breaking down the system: recent ecological approaches in archaeology. In Schiffer 1979
(Vol. 2), pp. 77-117.‡

Trigger, Bruce
1968b The determinants of settlement patterns. In Settlement Archaeology, edited by K. C. Chang,
pp. 53-78. Palo Alto: National Press (now Mayfield). (Reprinted in Trigger 1978, Ch. 11,
pp. 167-193. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978.)‡

Parsons, Jeffrey R.
1972 Archaeological settlement patterns. Annual Review of Anthropology 1:127-150.*‡

Rocek, Thomas R.
1988 The behavioral and material correlates of site seasonality: lessons from Navajo
ethnoarchaeology. American Antiquity 53:523-536.*‡

Readings for Week 8 - Settlement & Social Organization

Kent, Susan
1992 Studying variability in the archaeological record: an ethnoarchaeological model for
distinguishing mobility patterns. American Antiquity 57:635-660.*

Flannery, Kent V., ed.
1976 The early Mesoamerican village. New York: Academic Press. (Sample the articles, but see
especially Flannery's commentaries, as noted on reading summary page.)‡

Renfrew, Colin
1973 Monuments, mobilization, and social organization in neolithic Wessex. In The explanation of culture
change, edited by Colin. Renfrew, pp. 539-558.  London: Duckworth.‡

Marquardt, William H., & Carole L. Crumley
1987 Theoretical Issues in the Analysis of Spatial Patterning. In Regional dynamics : Burgundian
landscapes in historical perspective, Carole L. Crumley and William H. Marquardt, eds., Ch. 1.
San Diego: Academic Press.

Barrett, John C.
1999 Chronologies of landscape. In The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape, Peter J. Ucko
& Robert Layton, eds, pp. 21-30. London: Routledge.‡

Ashmore, Wendy
2002 "Decisions and dispositions": socializing spatial archaeology. American Anthropologist
104:1172-1183.§‡

Hicks, Ronald
2002  Ways of Inhabiting the World: Landscape Archaeology (Review essay). American
Anthropologist 104:315-320.*§

Dongoske, Kurt E., Michael Yeatts, Roger Anyon, & T. J. Ferguson
1997 Archaeological cultures and cultural affiliation: Hopi and Zuni perspectives in the American
Southwest. American Antiquity 62:600-608.*‡

Darvill, Timothy
1999 The historic environment, historic landscapes, and space-time-action models in landscape
archaeology. In The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscapes, Peter J. Ucko & Robert
Layton, eds., pp. 104-118. London: Routledge.‡

Kelley, Eamonn P.
2006  Kingship and sacrifice: Iron Age bog bodies and boundaries.  Archaeology Ireland Heritage
Guide 35.  Bray:  Wordwell.

Readings for Week 10 – Political Organization & Cognitive Archaeologies

Trigger, Bruce
1974 The archaeology of government. World Archaeology 6:95-106. (Reprinted in Trigger 1978,
Ch. 10, pp. 153-166. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978)*‡

Feinman, Gary, & Jill Neitzel
1984 Too many types: an overview of sedentary prestate societies in the Americas. In Schiffer 1984
(Vol. 7), pp. 39-102.‡

Hudson, Charles, Marvin Smith, David Hally, et al.
1985 Coosa: A chiefdom in the sixteenth-century southeastern United States. American Antiquity
50:723-737.*‡

Flannery, Kent V., & Joyce Marcus
1993 Cognitive archaeology. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 3:260-270. [Reprinted in Reader in
Archaeological Theory, David S. Whitley, ed., London: Routledge, 1998.]‡

Readings for Week 11 - Cognitive Archaeology & Ethnoarchaeology

David, Nicholas, Judy Sterner, & Kodzo Gavua
1988 Why pots are decorated (with comments). Current Anthropology 29:365-389.*‡

Evers, T. M., & T. N. Huffman
1988 On why pots are decorated the way they are. Current Anthropology 29:739-741.*‡

Brady, James E., & Wendy Ashmore
1999 Mountains, caves, water: ideational landscape of the ancient Maya. In Archaeologies of
Landscape, Wendy Ashmore and A. Bernard Knapp, eds., pp. 124-145. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hicks, Ronald
2007 Dún Ailinne's Role in Folklore, Myth, and the Sacred Landscape. In Dún Ailinne: Excavations at
an Irish Royal Site 1968-1975, edited by Bernard Wailes & Susan Johnston, pp. 183-194. Philadelphia:
University Museum.‡

Webster, Gary S.
1996 Social archaeology and the irrational (with comments). Current Anthropology 37:609-627.*‡

Leone, Mark P.
1998 Symbolic, structural, and symbolic archaeology. In Reader in Archaeological Theory:
Post-Processual and Cognitive Approaches, David S. Whitley, ed., pp. 49-68. London:
Routledge.‡

Robb, John E.
1998 The archaeology of symbols. Annual Review of Anthropology 27:329-346.*‡

Readings for Week 12 - Research Design & Geographic Information Systems

Binford, Lewis R.
1964 A consideration of archaeological research design. American Antiquity 29:425-441.*
(Reprinted in Binford 1972, pp. 135-162.)*‡

Goodyear, Albert C., L. Mark Raab, & Timothy Klinger
1978 The status of archaeological research design in cultural resource management. American
Antiquity 43:159-173.*‡

Sharer, Robert J., & Wendy Ashmore
1987 Research Design.  In Archaeology: discovering our past, pp. 104-131. Palo Alto: Mayfield.‡

Harris, T. M., & G. R. Lock
1995 Toward an evaluation of GIS in European archaeology: the past, present and future of theory and applications.
In Lock & Stančič, eds., pp. 349-365.  London: Taylor & Francis.‡

Llobera, Marcos
1996 Exploring the topography of mind: GIS, social space and archaeology. Antiquity 70:612-622.‡

Madry, Scott
1999? GIS and Remote Sensing for Archaeology. Published on the Internet at
www.informatics.org/france/index.html and linked pages.‡

Readings for Week 13 - Archaeological Resources Management & Historical Archaeology

McGimsey, Charles R., III, & Hester A. Davis
1984 [Archaeological resources management in the] United States of America. In Approaches to the
archaeological heritage, edited by Henry Cleere, pp. 116-124. Cambridge: Cambridge University. ‡

Cleere, Henry
1984 World cultural resource management: problems and perspectives. In Approaches to the
archaeological heritage, edited by Henry Cleere, pp. 125-131. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
1989 Introduction: the rationale of archaeological heritage management. In Archaeological heritage
management in the modern world, edited by Henry Cleere, pp. 1-19. London: Unwin Hyman.

VandeVeen, James M.
2004 Site preservation or self preservation? SAA Archaeological Record 4(1):30-33.
[see www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Pinter, Teresa L.
2005  Heritage tourism and archaeology:  critical issues.  SAA Archaeological Record 5(3):9-11.
[see www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Jameson, John H., Jr.
2000 Public interpretation, education and outreach: the growing predominance in American
archaeology. In Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society: Perspectives on
Managing and Presenting the Past, edited by Francis P. McManamon & Alf Hatton, pp. 288-298.
London: Routledge.‡

Moore, Lawrence E.
2006  Going public:  customization and American archaeology.  SAA Archaeological Record  6(3):16-19.
[see www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

McGimsey, Charles R., III,
2006 Response to Moore: common sense for archaeologists.  SAA Archaeological Record 6(3):20-21.
[see www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Boszhardt, Robert "Ernie"
2006  Response to Moore: confessions of a public archaeologist.  SAA Archaeological Record 6(3):22-23.
[see www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Deagan, Kathleen
1982 Avenues of inquiry in historical archaeology. In Schiffer 1982 (Vol. 5), pp. 151-177.‡
1991 Historical archaeology's contributions to our understanding of early America. In Historical
archaeology in global perspective, edited by Lisa Falk, pp. 97-112. Washington: Smithsonian
Institution Press.

Lightfoot, Kent G.
1995 Culture contact studies: redefining the relationship between prehistoric and historical
archaeology. American Antiquity 60:199-217.*‡

Goldstein, Lynn, & Keith Kintigh
1990 Ethics and the reburial controversy. American Antiquity 55: 585-591.*‡

Powell, Shirley, Christina Elnora Garza, & Aubrey Hendricks
1993 Ethics and ownership of the past: the reburial and repatriation controversy. In Schiffer, ed.,
1993, pp. 1-42.‡

Ferguson, T. J.
1996 Native Americans and the practice of archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 25:63-79.*‡

Hall, Teri R., & Jeanette Wolfley
2003 A survey of tribal perspectives on NAGPRA: repatriation and study of human remains. SAA
Archaeological Record 3(2):27-34.  [See www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Weiss, Elizabeth
2006  Research and NAGPRA.  SAA Archaeological Record 6(3):29-31. 
[See www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Lynott, Mark J.
1997 Ethical principles and archaeological practice: development of an ethics policy. American
Antiquity 62:589-599.*‡

Kohl, Philip L.
1998 Nationalism and archaeology: on the constructions of nations and the reconstructions of the
remote past.  Annual Review of Anthropology 26:223-246.*‡

Whitley, David S.
2007  Indigenous knowledge and 21st century archaeological practice:  an introduction.  SAA
Archaeological Record 7(2):6-8.  [See www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Zedeño, María Nieves
2007  Blackfeet landscape knowledge and the Badger-Two Medicine traditional cultural district.
SAA Archaeological Record 7(2):9-12.  [See www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Smith, Claire
2007  The indigenous transformation of archaeological practice.  SAA Archaeological Record 7(2):35-39.
[See www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]

Readings for Week 15 - Interactions with Biological Anthropology, etc.

Larsen, Clark Spencer
1987 Bioarchaeological interpretations of subsistence economy and behavior from human skeletal
remains. In Schiffer 1987 (Vol. 10), pp. 339-445 (includes 34 pp. bibliography).‡

Ambrose, Stanley H., & John Krigbaum
2003  Bone chemistry and bioarchaeology.  Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 22:193-199.

Stone, Anne C., & Mark Stoneking
1993 Ancient DNA from a pre-Columbian Amerindian population. American Journal of Physical
Anthropology 92:463-471.‡

Fowler, Brenda
2007 Written in bone.  Archaeology 60(3):50-53.†

Budd, Paul, et al.
2003  Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis: a report from Britain. 
Antiquity 78: 127-141.†

Hunter, J. R.
1994 Forensic archaeology in Britain. Antiquity 68:758-769.‡

Gould, Richard A.
2004 Disaster archaeology at the West Warwick, Rhode Island, nightclub fire scene. SAA
Archaeological Record 4(1):6-11.  [See www.saa.org/publications/theSAAarchRec/]‡

Fullagar, Richard, Judith Furey, & Bruce Hardy
1996 Residues on stone artefacts: state of a scientific art. Antiquity 70:740-745.‡

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