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James Deetz

Anthropology

#278

World Rank

#399

Historical Rank

#157

USA Rank

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Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, James Deetz was an American anthropologist, often known as one of the fathers of historical archaeology. His work focused on culture change and the cultural aspects inherent in the historic and archaeological record, and was concerned primarily with the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies. James Deetz was interested in obtaining valuable information that could be used to better understand the lives of early North American colonists, natives, and African Americans. He investigated a variety of material culture related to these groups to better comprehend their social behavior.

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James Deetz's Published Works

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Published Works

In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life (1980) (567)
The dynamics of stylistic change in Arikara ceramics (1965) (202)
Death's Heads, Cherubs, and Willow Trees: Experimental Archaeology in Colonial Cemeteries (1966) (174)
Invitation to archaeology (1967) (143)
Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864 (1993) (113)
The Rock Art of Southern Africa (1983) (100)
The Doppler Effect and Archaeology: A Consideration of the Spatial Aspects of Seriation (1965) (66)
Households (1982) (54)
History and Archaeological Theory: Walter Taylor Revisited (1988) (52)
The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in Honor of James Deetz (1992) (46)
Households: A Structural Key to Archaeological Explanation. (1982) (44)
Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture (1989) (42)
American Historical Archeology: Methods and Results (1988) (37)
Discussion: Archaeologists as storytellers (1998) (30)
Some Social Aspects of New England Colonial Mortuary Art (1971) (28)
The transformation of British culture in the Eastern Cape, 1820–1860 (1990) (19)
Man's imprint from the past : readings in the methods of archaeology (1971) (14)
Eighteenth century cemeteries: A demographic view (1967) (13)
Soil pH as a Tool in Archaeological Site Interpretation (1963) (13)
The chronology of Oudepost I, Cape, as inferred from an analysis of clay pipes (1990) (12)
Building, furnishings and social change in early Victorian Grahamstown (1990) (11)
A Cognitive Historical Model for American Material Culture: 1620-1835 (1974) (9)
Archaeography, Archaeology, or Archeology? (1989) (9)
The Construction and Uses of a Laboratory Archaeological Site (1964) (8)
The link from object to person to concept (1981) (7)
A Datable Chumash Pictograph from Santa Barbara County, California (1964) (6)
The North American Indians: a Sourcebook (1968) (6)
Flowerdrew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619-1864@@@Personal Discipline and Material Culture: An Archaeology of Annapolis, Maryland, 1695-1870 (1994) (0)

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