Method and Theory in American Archaeology

by Gordon Randolph Willey and R. Lee Lyman

Book Overview

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication

This invaluable classic provides the framework for the development of American archaeology during the last half of the 20th century.

In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology--a volume that went through five printings, the last in 1967 at the height of what became known as the new, or processual, archaeology. The advent of processual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817310886
• ISBN13: 9780817310882
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A True Archaeological Classic

This book is consistently cited in nearly all works on archaeological theory for the past fifty years - and rightfully so. Willey and Phillips' observations on the state of archaeology in their own time, and on the cultural phases of Native American societies, formed much of the basis for all of the works that came after. I highly recommend this book in its entirety for anyone interested in archaeology or anthropology.

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This book is the best M & T tutor! It explains M & T in much more detail than my required reader, which is a compilation of articles (which deciferring should be a class of its own!).