Abstract
Those who were waiting to see dramatic changes in Willey and Sabloff will be disappointed. The first five chapters are virtually identical to the previous edition, except that Indians have been transformed into Native Americans and the footnotes have been expanded somewhat to incorporate new publications. I have little to say about this section, which comprises two thirds of the book, and which does a reasonable job of covering the major archaeologists and themes of the first 100+ years of American archaeology. There are always specific points that one can take issue with but the authors make a real effort to cover American archaeology prior to 1960 in its broadest sense.
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Those who were waiting to see dramatic changes in Willey and Sabloffwill be disappointed
I have little to say about this section, which comprises two·thirds of the book, and which does a reasonablejob of covering the major archaeologists and themes ofthe first 100+ years of American archaeology
Beginning perhaps in the 19708 and becoming increasingly significant in the 1980s, the gulfbetween what was happening in the field and what ended up in the journals became so disparate that just reading American Antiquity or a few other major journals would not give a historian even a vaguely representative idea of what archaeologists were doing or thinking
Summary
Those who were waiting to see dramatic changes in Willey and Sabloffwill be disappointed. I have little to say about this section, which comprises two·thirds of the book, and which does a reasonablejob of covering the major archaeologists and themes ofthe first 100+ years of American archaeology.
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