Abstract
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations, ask thy father and he will show thee, thy elders, and they will tell thee. <em>Deuteronomy 32: 7</em><br /><br />For the past six years, <em>The Kansas Anthropologist</em> has published an ongoing series of reminiscences or retrospective articles by senior Great Plains archaeologists. The aim of the project is to collect reminiscences from senior anthropologists regarding their experiences in pre-and post-World War II Plains archaeology, biological anthropology, and ethnology. The historian John Lukacs (1966:x) once offered an elegant and concise comment on the value of history, one that I offer here:<br /><br />"I believe that history, as a form of thought, is one of the most precious and perhaps unique rational posssessions of Western civilizations. The character of a person may appear best from the reconstruction of the history of his life; the same is true of the character of nations. The very history of a problem may reveal its essential diagnosis. There is no human endeavor that may not be approached and studied profitably through its history."<br /><br />Fortunately, there hardly needs to be a justification anymore for such a project, as is attested by the recent proliferation of research into the history of archaeology and anthropology on virtually a global scale.<br /><br />The intention of these retrospective articles is not to explore or diagnose any particular problem but rather to create a mosaic of first person narrratives informed by personal experience and illustrated with photos and anecdotes to illuminate the development of Plains anthropology in the 20th Century.<br />
Highlights
The Kansas Anthropologist Reminlscence Project for Senior Plains Anthropologists by Marlin F
KU Years: 1947-1980. 13(1&2): 58-72 (1992). [This retrospectvi e was the ftrst and was included in an issue of thejournal devoted to the history of archaeology at the University of Kansas entitled "Archeology at the University of Kansas, Wdliston-Eiseley-Spaulding-Smith;" its title
The sad fact of the death of most of the eldest generation of Plains anthropologists has necessi tated a shift to the post-war experiences of a younger generation
Summary
The Kansas Anthropologist Reminlscence Project for Senior Plains Anthropologists by Marlin F. For the past six years, The Kansas Anthropologist has· published an ongoing series of reminiscences or retrospective lrticles by senior Great Plains archaeologists. JOlogists regarding their experiences in pro-and post-World War D Plains archaeology, biological anthropology, and [This retrospectvi e was the ftrst and was included in an issue of thejournal devoted to the history of archaeology at the University of Kansas entitled "Archeology at the University of Kansas, Wdliston-Eiseley-Spaulding-Smith;" its title.
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