Abstract
Hewett's career was notable for many things. including effective support of the 1906 Antiquities Act [United States], first director of the School of American Archaeology (later, School of American Research) in Santa Fe in 1907, first director of the Museum of New Mexico in 1909, professor of anthropology at State Teachers College, San Diego, in 1922, head of the new department of archaeology and anthropology at the University of New Mexico in 1927, and head of the anthropology department at the University of Southern California. 1932. Douglas W. Schwartz has described Hewett's career as characterized by great energy and intelligence directed to a series of activities, but each to be superseded by the next as new interest arose...
Highlights
Schwartz has described Hewett's carere as "characterized by great energy and intelligence directed to a series of activities, but eac to be superseded by a. a new interest arose...[including] providing inspiration to Indian craftsmen, students, scholars, and. on expanding public interest in anthropology, a public he helped create" (Papers ofthe Archaeological Socie.ty oj"New Mexico,6::256, 1981)
After 85 years it.has been published In an English translation by Madeleine Turrell Rodack (Hewett's original English version having disappeared):· Ancient Communities in the American Desert: Archa oiogical Research on the Distribution and Social Orga- . nization on the Ancient Populations of the Southwestern United States and Northern New Mexico (Archaeologi cal Society of New Mexico Monograph Series, No 1, J 993)
Much later ¥vonne Lange was asked to check it against the French original and made some corrections, to prepare it for publication by the Atchaeological Society of New Mexico
Summary
The session was an excellent survey of the various aspects of the history of Canadian archaeology. I came away from the session knowing a great deal more about the origins and development of Canadian archaeology than I had hoped. It was decided that the volume should appear under the auspices of the Canadian Archaeological Association.
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