Abstract
Bruce Trigger was one of the few scholars whose work had a huge impact on the direction of world archaeology. However, he was not a leader, but more of a model, a kind of human landmark. As a result of Bruce Trigger’s work, it became possible to establish what was good archaeology and what was good in archaeology. Yet his work often took him outside the limits of archaeology. He was a prehistorian, an anthropologist-ethnologist and an archaeologist. Like his idol Gordon Childe, Bruce Trigger did not leave a school of archaeology, rather he developed, defined and promoted not only a whole direction in archaeology, but also, perhaps, many different directions. And of course, he influenced the career paths of many archaeologists.
Highlights
Today no other scholar is able to skillfully embrace the whole multifaceted range of activities of this modest and calm man
Since I always felt that if there were another archaeologist in the world whose positions were the most similar to mine, it would be Bruce Trigger
Some years later Trigger published his work on the exemplary archaeologist and exponent of ideas dear to him in Gordon Childe: Revolutions in Archaeology (Trigger 1980a)
Summary
Bruce Trigger was one of the few scholars whose work had a huge impact on the direction of world archaeology. Ten years later I read and was inspired by Trigger’s comments in Antiquity about my book Panorama of Theoretical Archaeology (1977) These were published under the remarkable title of ‘No more from another planet’ (Trigger 1978b), but alas, such mutual recognition appeared to be isolated and premature. Some years later Trigger published his work on the exemplary archaeologist and exponent of ideas dear to him in Gordon Childe: Revolutions in Archaeology (Trigger 1980a). He sent me this book too, but it never arrived: probably because the Soviet state censors were frightened of the word ‘revolution’ in its title. After his death, it is even more apparent that he was one of the outstanding figures of the world archaeology
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