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#346

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Archeology

#103

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#176

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#26

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PhD Anthropology Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Irving Rouse was an American archaeologist on the faculty of Yale University best known for his work in the Greater and Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean, especially in Haiti. He also conducted fieldwork in Florida and Venezuela. He made major contributions to the development of archaeological theory, with a special emphasis on taxonomy and classification of archaeological materials and studies of human migration.

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The Tainos : Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus (1993) (257)
The Classification of Artifacts in Archaeology (1960) (160)
Migrations in Prehistory: Inferring Population Movement from Cultural Remains. (1987) (145)
From Prehistory in Haiti, A Study in Method (1964) (100)
Archaeological constructs : an aspect of theoretical archaeology (1982) (66)
Introduction to prehistory : a systematic approach (1972) (50)
An Archaeological Classification of Culture Contact Situations (1955) (50)
Prehistory of the West Indies. (1964) (43)
A comparative study of human reproduction (1964) (35)
Areas and Periods of Culture in the Greater Antilles (1951) (34)
Early Man in the West Indies (1969) (33)
Yale Natural Radiocarbon Measurements VIII (1963) (30)
Archaeological essays in honor of Irving B. Rouse (1978) (30)
An archeological chronology of Venezuela (1958) (26)
A Lithic Industry of Paleo-Indian Type in Venezuela (1956) (26)
Peopling of the Americas (1976) (23)
Linguistic and Archeological Time Depth in the West Indies (1955) (23)
On the Correlation of Phases of Culture (1955) (23)
The Circum‐Caribbean Theory, An Archeological Test (1953) (23)
Some Recent Radiocarbon Dates for Western Venezuela (1963) (22)
Porto Rican prehistory : introduction, excavations in the West and North (1952) (19)
SOME EVIDENCE CONCERNING THE ORIGINS OF WEST INDIAN POTTERY‐MAKING (1940) (19)
Ceramic Traditions and Sequences in Connecticut (1947) (17)
Excavations at Maria de la Cruz Cave and Hacienda Grande Village Site, Loiza, Puerto Rico (2010) (16)
The Place of 'Peoples' in Prehistoric Research (1965) (13)
Prehistoric Caribbean culture contact as seen from Venezuela. (1951) (11)
Pattern and process in West Indian archaeology (1977) (11)
Cannibal Encounters: Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492-1763 (1993) (10)
A survey of Indian River archeology, Florida . Chronology at South Indian Field, Florida (1951) (10)
Oneida Verb Morphology: Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 48 (2011) (10)
On the Use of the Concept of Area Co-Tradition (1954) (10)
Culture Area and Co-Tradition (1957) (9)
New Evidence Pertaining to Puerto Rican Prehistory. (1937) (9)
Measurements of Some Prehistoric Design Developments in the Southeastern United States. James A. Ford. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 44, Pt. 3, pp. 309-84, New York, 1952. 23 text figures, 3 tables. $2.00. (1954) (8)
Re-Examination of the Guida Farm (1960) (7)
Radiocarbon dates from the West Indies (1978) (7)
The Teaching of Archaeology (1979) (7)
On the Typological Method (1944) (6)
The effect of hormones on glucocorticoid binding capacity of rat liver cytosol. (1975) (6)
An Introduction to American Archaeology, Vol. One: North and Middle America (1968) (6)
Arawakan phylogeny, caribbean chronology, and their implications for the study of population movement (1985) (6)
Comments on analytical archaeology (1970) (5)
Modern Yucatecan Maya Pottery Making. Raymond H. Thompson. Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, No. 15, Salt Lake City, 1958. x+157 pp., 48 figs. $2.50. (1959) (4)
Further Comment on the Finds at El Jobo, Venezuela (1957) (4)
Age of the Melbourne Interval (1952) (4)
Porto Rican prehistory : excavations in the interior, South and East; chronological implications (1952) (3)
Archaeology in Lowland South America and the Caribbean, 1935-60 (1961) (3)
A West Indian Ax from Florida (1948) (2)
Anthropological Bibliography of the Eastern Seaboard (1947) (2)
Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean (2011) (2)
SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY: VERO AND MELBOURNE MAN: A CULTURAL AND CHRONOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION* (1950) (2)
Cochise and Mogollon Sites, Pine Lawn Valley, Western New Mexico (1950) (1)
Guianas : indigenous period (1953) (1)
Excavations in the Ft. Liberté region, Haiti . Culture of the Ft. Liberté region, Haiti (1941) (1)
Some Suggestions As To Historical Perspective in Connecticut Archeology (1939) (1)
Wendell C. Bennett — 1905-1953 (1954) (1)
PORTO RICAN PREHISTORY (In Two Parts) (1949) (1)
Caverna, costa y meseta (1946) (1)
23. The Bailey Collection of Stone Artifacts from Puerto Rico (1961) (1)
West Indian Axe from Florida (1948) (1)
Preliminary Archaeological Bibliography of the Eastern United States - Part One (1939) (1)
ARCHEOLOGY: Archeological Investigations in British Guiana. Clifford Evans and Betty J. Meggers (1961) (1)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Native Peoples of South America. Julian H. Steward and Louis C. Faron (1961) (1)
World Prehistory: An Outline. Grahame Clark. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1961. xiii + 284 pp., frontis., 12 pls., 7 maps. Cloth $6.00, paper $2.45. (1962) (0)
An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archœology: with a Preliminary Account of the Excavations at Pecos (2011) (0)
Robert Randolph Howard, 1920-1965 (1967) (0)
The Archaeology of Grenada, West Indies. Ripley P. Bullen. Contributions of the Florida State Museum, Social Sciences, No. 11, Gainesville, 1964. 67 Pp., 4 Figs., 25 Pls., 6 Tables. $1.00. (1966) (0)
Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 1948 (1948) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: The Distribution of Prehistoric Rock Engraving and Paintings in South Africa. C. Van Riet Lowe: The White Lady of the Brandberg. Abbé Henri Breuil (1957) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Man Before History. CREIGHTON GABEL (1965) (0)
Historical Archaeology: A Guide to Substantive and Theoretical Contributions. Robert L. Schuyler, editor. Baywood Publishing Company, Inc. Farmingdale, NY, 1978. xiv + 286 pp., illus. (1979) (0)
gerardo reichel-dolmatoff, San Agustín: A Culture of Colombia (1974) (0)
The Logos in the Gospel of John (1935) (0)
Southwestern Archaeology. Second Edition. John C. Mcgregor. University Of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1965. vii + 511 Pp., 49 Pls., 208 Figs. $9.50. (1966) (0)
ETHNOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY: Natural History of the West Indies. Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo. Translated and edited by Sterling A. Stoudemire (1960) (0)
WEST INDIES AND SOUTH AMERICA: Anthropological Papers, based principally on studies of the prehistoric archeology and ethnology of the Greater Antilles. Adolfo de Hostos (1944) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: The Dawn of Civilization: the First World Survey of Human Cultures in Early Times. Stuart Piggott (Ed.) (1962) (0)
11. Mesoamerica and the Eastern Caribbean Area (1966) (0)
Southwestern Archeology, Its History and Theory: Comments (1954) (0)
Recent Developments in American Archeology (1960) (0)
Comment on Lynch’s Reply (1978) (0)
Essays in the Science of Culture in Honor of Leslie A. White. Edited by Gertrude E. Dole and Robert L. Carniero. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, 1960 xlvi + 509 pp., 17 figs., 1 map. $6.25. (1961) (0)
Indian and Spanish: Selected Writings By John M. Goggin (1964) (0)
ARCHEOLOGY: Cultural Sequences at The Dalles, Oregon. L. S. Chessman. In collaboration with David L. Cole, Wilbur A. Davis, Thomas M. Newman and Daniel J. Scheans (1961) (0)
A Note on Rouse's "The Circum-Caribbean Theory, an Archeological Test": Reply (1954) (0)
THE PEABODY MUSEUM'S EXHIBITS OF CONNECTICUT ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (1984) (0)
Philip Bagby. Culture and History: Prolegomena to the Comparative Study of Civilizations. Pp. ix, 244. Published in Great Britain in 1958. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959. $5.00 (1960) (0)
Archaeology: Villa Taina de Boqueron: The Excavation of an Early Taino Site in Puerto Rico. Christopher R. Goodwin and Jeffery B. Walker (1978) (0)
The Ciboney culture of Cayo Redondo, Cuba . Archeology of the Maniabon Hills, Cuba (1943) (0)
Vanished Civilizations of the Ancient World. Edward Bacon, Ed. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1963. 360 pp. Illus. $28.50 (1963) (0)
Indian Tribes of Aboriginal America: Selected Papers of trie XXIXth International Congress of Americanists [New York, 1949]. Edited by Sol Tax. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1952. 410 pp. $7.50. (1955) (0)
Introduction (1967) (0)
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Congress of Americanists [Cambridge, 1952], Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1955. xxx+249 pp., illus. £3.3.0. (1956) (0)
Peruvian Prehistory: The Peoples and Cultures of Ancient Peru . Luis Lumbreras. Translated from the Spanish edition (Lima, 1969) by Betty J. Meggers. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1974 (distributor, Braziller, New York). viii, 248 pp., illus. $15. (1975) (0)
Early Settlements and Their Environs: The Uruk Countryside . The Natural Setting of Urban Societies. Robert McC. Adams and Hans J. Nissen. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1972. xii, 242 pp., illus. $17.50. (1973) (0)
Trend and Tradition in the Prehistory of the Eastern United States . Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers, vol. 10. American Anthropological Association Memoir No. 88. Joseph R. Caldwell. Illinois State Museum, Springfield, 1958. xiv +88 pp. Illus. (1959) (0)

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