Gordon Willey

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According to Wikipedia, Gordon Randolph Willey was an American archaeologist who was described by colleagues as the "dean" of New World archaeology. Willey performed fieldwork at excavations in South America, Central America and the Southeastern United States; and pioneered the development and methodology for settlement patterns theories. He worked as an anthropologist for the Smithsonian Institution and as a professor at Harvard University.

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Method and theory in American archaeology (1958) (687)
A history of American archaeology (1974) (384)
Prehistoric Maya settlements in the Belize Valley (1966) (208)
An introduction to American archaeology (1966) (176)
The Ethnobotany of Pre-Columbian Peru (1962) (142)
Travels and archaeology in South Chile (1988) (126)
Archæology of the Florida Gulf Coast (1982) (113)
The Collapse of Maya Civilization in the Southern Lowlands: A Consideration of History and Process (1967) (110)
Prehistoric settlement patterns in the New World (1953) (109)
AN INTERPRETATION OF THE PREHISTORY OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES (1941) (107)
Prehistoric settlement patterns : essays in honor of Gordon R. Willey ; edited by Evon Z. Vogt. and Richard M. Leventhal (1983) (91)
Method and Theory in American Archeology: An Operational Basis for Culture-Historical Integration (1953) (90)
The Type-Variety Concept as a Basis for the Analysis of Maya Pottery (1960) (77)
Horizon Styles and Pottery Traditions in Peruvian Archaeology (1945) (66)
The Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization in the Southern Lowlands: A Symposium Summary Statement (1971) (61)
The Early Great Styles and the Rise of the Pre-Columbian Civilizations1 (1962) (60)
Method and Theory in American Archeology II: Historical-Developmental Interpretation (1955) (57)
Horizonal Integration and Regional Diversity: An Alternating Process in the Rise of Civilizations (1991) (52)
An Archaeological Classification of Culture Contact Situations (1955) (50)
Maya archaeology and ethnohistory (1979) (48)
The Prehistory of the Southeastern Maya Periphery (1974) (48)
The Monagrillo culture of Panama (1954) (44)
Maya Lowland Ceramics: A Report from the 1965 Guatemala City Conference (1967) (40)
The Structure of Ancient Maya Society: Evidence from the Southern Lowlands (1956) (37)
An Introduction to American Archaeology, Vol. I: North and Middle America (1971) (37)
Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica (1965) (36)
Aspero, Peru: A Reexamination of the Site and Its Implications (1973) (36)
Reconnaissance Notes on the Site of Huari, near Ayacucho, Peru (1950) (35)
A Functional Analysis of “Horizon Styles” in Peruvian Archaeology (1945) (35)
Surface survey of the Virú Valley, Peru (1949) (33)
A Chronological Outline for the Northwest Florida Coast (1942) (31)
Ceramics and Artifacts from Excavations in the Copan Residential Zone (1995) (31)
Origins of agriculture in Middle America. (1965) (29)
Crooks site, a Marksville period burial mound in La Salle Parish, Louisiana (1940) (28)
A Pattern of Diffusion-Acculturation (1953) (27)
Archaeological retrospect 6 (1984) (26)
Civilization in the ancient Americas : essays in honor of Gordon R. Willey (1983) (26)
The Prehistoric Civilizations of Nuclear America (1955) (25)
The Harvey Lecture Series. The Concept of the "Disembedded Capital" in Comparative Perspective (1979) (25)
A Consideration of the early classic period in the Maya Lowlands (1985) (25)
The Rise Of Maya Civilization: A Summary View (1977) (24)
New World Prehistory. (1960) (23)
Negative-Painted Pottery from Crystal River, Florida (1944) (18)
The Weeden Island Culture: A Preliminary Definition (1945) (18)
The Archaic Tradition in Puerto Rico (1955) (18)
The Chavín Problem: A Review and Critique (1951) (18)
Archaeological researches in retrospect (1974) (17)
Towards an Holistic View of Ancient Maya Civilisation (1980) (17)
Estimated Correlations and Dating of South and Central American Culture Sequences (1958) (16)
Quiche Conquest: Centralism and Regionalism in Highland Guatemalan State Development (1980) (16)
Ceramic Stratigraphy in a Georgia Village Site (1939) (15)
An Introduction to American Archaeology. I, North and Middle America. (1967) (15)
Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections (1968) (14)
History of American Archaeology, Second Edition (1980) (14)
Notes on Central Georgia Dendrochronology (1937) (13)
Early Ancon And Early Supe Culture: Chavin Horizon Sites Of The Central Peruvian Coast (2011) (13)
The ruins of Altar de Sacrifícios, Department of Peten, Guatemala : an introduction (1969) (13)
The Melhado Site, a House Mound Group in British Honduras (1956) (13)
Excavations at Wari, Ayacucho, Peru (1955) (13)
New World Prehistory (1944) (13)
Mesoamerican civilization and the idea of transcendence (1976) (13)
Portraits in American Archaeology: Remembrances of Some Distinguished Americanists (1988) (13)
14. Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Maya Lowlands (1965) (12)
Some Continuing Problems in New World Culture History (1985) (11)
The archaeology of William Henry Holmes (1992) (11)
The Cultural Context of the Crystal River Negative-Painted Style (1948) (11)
Cultural Stratigraphy in Panama: A Preliminary Report on the Girón Site (1954) (9)
An Introduction to American Archaeology: 2, South America. (1972) (9)
9. Pottery of the Holmul I Style from Barton Ramie; British Honduras (1961) (9)
Crystal River, Florida: a 1949 Visit (1949) (8)
Archaeological thought in America: Settlement pattern studies and evidences for intensive agriculture in the Maya Lowlands (1989) (8)
Radiocarbon chronology for Seibal, Guatemala (1974) (8)
Indian skeletal material from the central coast of Peru (1947) (8)
14. The Patterns of Farming Life and Civilization (1964) (8)
Archeological studies in Peru 1941-1942 (1944) (7)
Handbook of South American Indians. Volume 3, The Tropical Forest Tribes@@@Handbook of South American Indians. Volume 4, The Circum-Caribbean Tribes (1949) (7)
Comment on “Method and Theory in American Archeology” (1957) (7)
The Southeast Classic Maya Zone : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 6th and 7th October, 1984 (1988) (7)
Culture Sequence in the Manatee Region of West Florida (1948) (7)
The rise of Classic Maya civilization: a Pasión Valley perspective (1977) (7)
A Supplement to The Pottery Sequence at Ancon (1943) (6)
Styles and State Formations (1999) (6)
Observations on the Emergence of Civilization in Mesoamerica (1971) (6)
A Prototype for the Southern Cult (1948) (6)
An Introduction to American Archaeology, Vol. One: North and Middle America (1968) (6)
Désiré Charnay, expeditionary photographer (1981) (6)
An Introduction to American Archaeology. Vol. II: South America (1974) (6)
Man, settlement and urbanism (1973) (5)
Changing Conceptions of Lowland Maya Culture History (1984) (5)
Surface survey of the Virú Valleu, Peru. 1. Virú Valley; background and problems. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 43, pt. 1 (1949) (5)
Volume in Pottery and the Selection of Samples (1961) (5)
Developments in the Archaeology of Nuclear America, 1935-60 (1961) (5)
American Archaeology. (1951) (5)
Burial patterns in the Burns and Fuller mounds, Cape Canaveral, Florida (1954) (5)
James Alfred Ford, 1911-1968 (1969) (4)
Why did the pre-columbian maya civilization collapse? (1971) (4)
New World Prehistory: 1974 (1974) (4)
A survey of methods and problems in archaeological excavation; with special reference to the Southwest (1936) (4)
Middle American anthropology : special symposium of the American Anthropological Association (1960) (4)
Evolution and Culture. Edited by Marshall D. Sahlins and Elman R. Service. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1960 xii + 131 pp. $3.75. (1961) (4)
Maya Archeology (1982) (3)
A Survey of South American Archaeology (1952) (3)
Peruvian Horizon Styles (1951) (3)
Some Aspects of American Culture-history: a review (1952) (3)
Archaeological Perspective on Algonkian-Gulf Linguistic Relationships (1958) (3)
The North Highlands of Peru, Excavations in the Callejón de Huaylas and at Chavin de Huántar. Wendell C. Bennett (1946) (3)
NORTH AMERICA: The Wright Mounds, Sites 6 and 7, Montgomery County, Kentucky. Wm. S. Webb with chapters on Pottery and Physical Anthropology by Wm. G. Haag and H. T. E. Hertzberg (1941) (3)
YEARS OF AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY (1968) (3)
The Viru Valley project and settlement archaeology, some reminiscences and ontemporary comments. (2004) (3)
Measuring the Flow of Time: The Works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941 (1999) (2)
“Local Grouping in Melanesia”: An Article of Theoretical Importance (1958) (2)
1. Archeological Notes on The Central Coast (1943) (2)
The Archeology of the Greater Pampa (1946) (2)
An Introduction to American Archaeology, Vol. Two, South America (1972) (2)
The Leake Mounds, Bartow County, Georgia (1946) (2)
Dennis Edward Puleston (1940–1978): Maya Archaeologist (1982) (2)
Origins of Agriculture in Middle America. In Handbook of Middle American Indians (1964) (2)
Tradition Trend in Ceramic Development (1954) (2)
Southwestern Cultural Interrelationships and the Question of Area Co-Tradition: Comments (1954) (2)
Wetland physical and biotic studies using multispectral data (1986) (2)
Pre-Columbian archaeology : readings from Scientific American (1980) (2)
Theory and Method On American Archaeology (1958) (2)
Major architecture and caches . Analyses of fine paste ceramics (1982) (1)
12. Copan, Quirigua, and the Southeast Maya Zone: A Summary View (1986) (1)
Philip Phillips 1900–1994 (1996) (1)
Experiences with the Institute of Andean Research: 1941-42 and 1946 (2009) (1)
Handbook of Middle American Indians. 4, Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections. (1969) (1)
Introduction : the site and its setting . Ceramics (1975) (1)
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Prehistory in Haiti, A Study in Method. Irving Rouse (1940) (1)
Essays in Maya archaeology (1987) (1)
Ecuadorean Figurines and the Ceramic Mold in the New World (1947) (1)
The Flint River Site, Ma°48. W. S. Webb and David L. DeJarnette. Alabama Museum of Natural History, Museum Paper, No. 23. University, Alabama, 1948. 87 pp., 35 figs. (1949) (1)
New World and Pacific Civilizations: Cultures of America, Asia, and the Pacific (1994) (1)
Porto Rican Prehistory: Introduction: Excavations in the West and North: Excavations in the Interior, South, and East: Chronological Implications. Irving Rouse. (1954) (1)
Archeology: Andean Culture History. Wendell C. Bennett and Junius B. Bird (1950) (1)
Northwest Argentine archeology . Lowland Argentine archeology (1948) (1)
Archeology: Excavations at Nebaj, Guatemala.A. Ledyard Smith and A. V. Kidder, withNotes on the Skeletal Materialby T. D. Stewart (1953) (1)
Foreword (1982) (1)
ARCHEOLOGY: Ancient Landscapes: Studies in Field Archaeology. John Bradford (1960) (1)
Carter's Thesis in the Light of Archaeology: The Southeast. George F. Carter. (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 5, New York, 1945. 140 pp., 27 text figures, 6 tables. $1.50.) (1946) (1)
Burning the Ashen Faggot: A Surviving Somerset Custom (1983) (1)
Ignacio Bernal: A history of Mexican archaeology. The vanished civilizations of Middle America . The World of Archaeology series. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980. 208 pp., 155 illustrations. £10.50. (1980) (1)
Maya Postclassic State Formation: Segmentary Lineage Migration in Advancing Frontiers. JOHN W. FOX (1989) (1)
Indian Life in the Upper Great Lakes. 11,000 B.C. to A.D. 1800. George Irving Quimby. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1960. xv + 182 pp. Illus. $ 5.95 (1960) (1)
)IETHOD AXD THEORY IX AliERICAX ARCHEOLOGY: Ax OPERATIOXAL BASIS FOR CL""LTCRE-HrSTORICAL IXTEGRATIOX (1997) (0)
Recent Advances in Maya Archaeology (1990) (0)
WEST INDIES AND SOUTH AMERICA: Survey and Excavations in Southern Ecuador. Donald Collier and John V. Murra (1944) (0)
Reviews. ON THE EXCAVATION OF A SHELL MOUND AT PALO SECO, TRINIDAD, B.W.I. By J. A. Bullbrook. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, Nos. 49 and 50, 1953. Yale University Press and Oxford University Press. Bound and sold together. Price, $3.00. (1955) (0)
Site Locations. (Book Reviews: Archaeological Atlas of the World) (1975) (0)
Some Thoughts on the Chronological-Developmental Configuration of Lower Central American Cultures (1982) (0)
The Wassail Tradition at Curry Rivel (1978) (0)
Viking Fund Medalists 1953 (1954) (0)
Obituary: Adolfo Molina Orantes, 1915-1980 (1981) (0)
The Whitesburg Bridge Site, Mav10. W. S. Webb and David L. DeJarnette. Alabama Museum of Natural History, Museum Paper, No. 24. University, Alabama, 1948; 44 pp., 14 figs. (1949) (0)
Prehistoric Maya Settlements in the Belize Valley: Ceramic Evaluation Charts Numbers 1-36 (1966) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Piedras Negras Archaeology: Architecture. Part VI. Unclassifield Buildings and Substructures. Linton Satterthwaite, Jr. (1955) (0)
Glyn Daniel: The First Civilizations: the Archaeology of their Origins . London: Thames and Hudson, 1968. 192 pp., 78 pls., 16 figs. 42s. (1969) (0)
The Navaho Door, An Introduction to Navaho Life. By Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton with a Foreword by John Collier. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944. 144 pp. $4.00. Illustrated (1945) (0)
Everyday Life of the Aztecs . By Warwick Bray. 8¾ × 5¾. Pp. 208 + frontis. + 97 figs. London: Batsford and New York: Putnam, 1968. 25s. (1970) (0)
Tlatilco and the Pre-Classic Cultures of the New World. Muriel Noé Porter. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 19, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, 1953. 104 pp., 16 figs., 14 pls. $2.50. (1956) (0)
Harry Evelyn Dorr Pollock, 1901–1982 (1983) (0)
"A History of American Archaeology", Gordon R. Willey, Jeremy A. Sabloff, London 1974 : [recenzja] / Andrzej Abramowicz. (1978) (0)
Chichén Itzá and Maya Archaeology (1984) (0)
Site Locations: Archaeological Atlas of the World . David and Ruth Whitehouse. Maps drawn by John Woodcock and Shalom Schotten. Freeman, San Francisco, 1975. 272 pp. Cloth, $17; paper, $8.95. (1975) (0)
The Incas of Pedro Cieza de León . Translated by Harriet de Onis. Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, Ed. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1959. lxxx + 394 pp. Illus. $5.95. (1959) (0)
HOPEWELLIAN COMMUNITIES IN ILLINOIS . Ed. by Thorne Deuel. Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Ill. 1952, pp. 271, 94 plates. 3.50 dollars. (1953) (0)
The Ancient Civilizations of Peru. J. Alden Mason. Penguin Books, Baltimore, 1957. xx +330 pp., 6 figs., 64 pls., 2 maps, 1 table. $1.25. (1958) (0)
Archaeologist extraordinary (1980) (0)
Fryxell Award for Interdisciplinary Research (1980) (0)
Measuring the Flow of Time (1999) (0)
New World Archaeology and Culture History: Collected Essays and Articles (1991) (0)
South American-Archaic Relations: Additional Comment (1951) (0)
The Alfred Vincent Kidder Award, 1975 (1975) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Toward Definition of the Nazca Style. A. L. Kroeber (1957) (0)
Northwest Argentine Archaeology.@@@Lowland Argentine Archaeology. (1951) (0)
Michael D. Coe: America's First Civilization . (Smithsonian Library series.) New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1968. 159 pp., illustrated throughout. $4.98. (1969) (0)
Twin City Tales. A Hermeneutical Reassessment of Tula and Chichén Itzá. Lindsay Jones (1996) (0)
A New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology, by Edwin A. Lyon, The University of Alabama Press (1996) (0)
A REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATE OF THE FIELD (2008) (0)
Review of "The Fischer Site, Fayette County, Kentucky" By W. S. Webb and W. G. Haag (1947) (0)
MEN OUT OF ASIA (1949) (0)
Excavations: Stratitests, Burials, and Features (1954) (0)
Reviews. Donald W. Lathrap: The Upper Amazon. (Vol. 70 in the Ancient Peoples and Places series.) London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. 256 pp., 75 pls., 42 figs., 15 maps. £2.50. (1971) (0)
Conquistadores Without Swords: Archaeologists in the Americas. Leo Deuel. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1967, xxi + 647 pp., 142 figs., 43 pls., 30 maps and plans, index. $12.50. (1968) (0)
13. Origins of Agriculture in Middle America (1964) (0)
Book Reviews: The Relation of Fungi to Human Affairs (1959) (0)
Artifacts . A reconnaissance of Cancuen . A brief reconnaissance of Itzan (1978) (0)
Review of "the Wright Mound" By W.S. Webb (1941) (0)
Antropología de Mesoamérica (1960) (0)
Review: "the Safety Harbor Site, Pinellas County, Florida" (1951) (0)
Biographical Essay (0)
In Search of Maya Glyphs: From the Archaeological Journals of Sylvanus Morley. SYLVANUS G. MORLEY (1971) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Precolumbian Jade: New Geological and Cultural Interpretations. Frederick W. Lange, ed (1994) (0)
Brief Review of Columbia University-National Park Service Archeological Survey in West Florida (1941) (0)
Highway of the Sun. Victor von Hagen (1957) (0)
Wendell C. Bennett Memorial (1954) (0)
Augustus Ledyard Smith 1901-1985 (1988) (0)
Peruvian Culture: Dumbarton Oaks Conference on Chavin . Washington, D.c., Oct. 1968. Elizabeth P. Benson, Ed. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, 1971. x, 124 pp., illus. $6. (1971) (0)
Aboriginal Cultural Development in Latin America: An Interpretative Review. B. J. Meggers and Clifford Evans, (eds.) (1964) (0)
LATIN AMERICA: Chavin Stone Carving. Wendell C. Bennett (1943) (0)
Amerindia, Prehistoric y Etnología del Nuevo Mundo. Number 1. D. D. Vidart, editor. Centre de Estudios Arqueológicos y Antropológicos Americanos, Montevideo, 1962. 129 pp., line drawings and half-tone reproductions as text figures. $3.00 (U.S.). (1964) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: World Prehistory: An Outline. Grahame Clark (1961) (0)
Indians Before Columbus: Twenty Thousand Years of North American History Revealed by Archaeology . Paul S. Martin, George I. Quimby, and Donald Collier. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1947. Pp. xxiii + 582. (Illustrated.) $6.00. (1947) (0)
The Ormond Beach Mound, east central Florida (1957) (0)
William Rotch Bullard, Jr., 1926-1972 (1973) (0)
The Convergence of Humanistic and Scientific Approaches in Maya Archaeology (1985) (0)
The Kingsbury Jig (1981) (0)
Tikal . Karl Heider. (1976) (0)
C. W. Ceram: The first American: a story of North American archaeology . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. 378 pp., many unnumbered pls. (some in colour) several figs. $9.95. (1972) (0)
Monumental sculpture and hieroglyphic inscriptions . Burials : a cultural analysis . The ethnozoology of the Maya : faunal remains from five sites in Paten, Guatemala . General summary and conclusions (1990) (0)
SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY (2007) (0)
La Clave de los glifos mayas.@@@Prehistoric Maya Settlements in the Belize Valley. (1966) (0)
Prehistoric Coasted Adaptations: The Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America. Barbara L. Stark and Barbara Voorhies, editors. Academic Press, New York, 1978. 313 pp., 56 illus. (both line-cut and photographic), individual article bibliographies, index. $21.00. (1979) (0)
Archaeological Salvage in the Walter F. George Basin of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama. By David L. De Jarnette. 9½×6. Pp. xvi + 237 + 93 figs. Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1975. Price not stated. (1976) (0)
THE CIVILIZATIONS OF ANCIENT AMERICA. Selected Papers of the 29th International Congress of Americanists. Edited by Sol Tax. University of Chicago Press, 1952, and Cambridge University Press, 1952. 328 pp., numerous text figures and half-tone illustrations. Price, 56s 6d. (1953) (0)
George Alexander Kubler (26 July 1912-3 October 1996) (1998) (0)
Comments On the Archaeology of Northwest Florida in 1984 (1985) (0)
The Art and Architecture of Ancient America: The Mexican, Maya, and Andean Peoples. George Kubler (1963) (0)

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