PART I: INTRODUCTION
Is Archaeology Anthropology?
Deborah L. Nichols, Rosemary A. Joyce, and Susan D. Gillespie
PART II: INTELLECTUAL FACTORS
Anthropology Must Have Archaeology
Timothy Earle
Bioarchaeology as Anthropology
George J. Armelagos
Archaeology as Anthropology of the Long Term
Thomas Barfield
American Archaeology's Uncertain Future
Geoffrey A. Clark
Archaeological Inference and Ethnographic Analogies: Rethinking the
"Lapita Cultural Complex"
John Edward Terrell
Historical Archaeology and Disciplinary Ethnogenesis
Teresita Majewski
PART III: PRACTICAL FACTORS
Teaching Archaeology as Anthropology
Susan D. Gillespie
Working in Museums as an Archaeological Anthropologist
Rosemary A. Joyce
Archaeology and Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century:
Strategies for Working Together
David G. Anderson
Anthropology Is Essential to Private Sector Archaeology
William H. Doelle
Anthropological Archaeology Conducted by Tribes: Traditional
Cultural Properties and Cultural Affiliation
T. J. Ferguson
PART IV: COMMENTARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Archaeology and Anthropology
Jane H. Hill
Let Archaeology Be
Richard G. Fox
Archaeology Is Anthropology
Susan D. Gillespie, Rosemary A. Joyce, and Deborah L. Nichols
List of Contributors
SUSAN D. GILLESPIE is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Florida. Her research combines archaeological,
iconographic, and ethnohistorical approaches to the investigation
of social organization and social identity. Her geographic focus is
Mesoamerica, which her scholarship treats as a symbiotic area (a
"field of ethnological study") whose co-evolving societies are best
understood from regional and interregional long-term comparative
perspectives. Her excavations, iconographic, and documentary
analyses have focused on the Aztecs, Olmecs, and Maya. She is
especially interested in understanding the formation and
interactions of social groups and hierarchy from a sociocosmic
perspective, and how conceptions of time, place, person, and event
were represented in material ways. These include architectural
forms and landscapes, ritual and mundane actions, the crafting of
portable objects, the manipulation of symbolic forms and icons, and
the construction and maintenance of narratives.
DEBORAH L. NICHOLS is the William J. Bryant 1925 Professor of
Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Her research has focused on the
development of early cities and states in Central Mexico. One area
of research has involved a reanalysis of artifacts and excavation
data from the site of Cerro Portezuelo in the eastern Basin of
Mexico that George Brainerd excavated in the mid-1950s to
understand the Classic to Postclassic transition. Among the
important findings of the project, she and co-investigators
established that occupation of the site began in the Late/Terminal
Formative/Preclassic, associated with Patlachique/Tezoyuca
ceramics. Our findings indicate that, contrary to most models,
Teotihuacan did not exert strong central control of the economy of
the southeast Basin of Mexico during the Early Classic period.
Cerro Portezuelo obtained obsidian from Michoacan, as well as the
Pachuca source controlled by Teotihuacan, and imported Early
Classic pottery from the western Basin of Mexico, as well as from
the Teotihuacan Valley.
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