A Quarter Century of Growth in American Archaeology

1961 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
New World ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
World Archaeology ◽  
Oil Pipelines ◽  
25Th Annual Meeting ◽  
Special Mention ◽  
Salvage Archaeology

AbstractTo introduce papers presented at a celebration of the 25th annual meeting of The Society for American Archaeology the development of New World archaeology is very broadly and briefly summarized. Expanding knowledge of culture areas and taxonomic systems is traced. The development of salvage archaeology in reservoir areas, along roads and oil pipelines is mentioned. There is an account of the development of various types of relative chronologies in the several areas and comment upon the significance of the introduction of radiocarbon dates. Special mention is made of the possible solution of the question of correlating Mayan and Julian calendars.

Archaeology in 1992: A Perspective on the Discipline from the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting Program

1992 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M. Feinman ◽  
Linda M. Nicholas ◽  
William D. Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
New World ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Sociopolitical Organization ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
World Archaeology ◽  
Production Studies ◽  
Meeting Program ◽  
Regional Systems ◽  
Major Trend

A survey of presentations at recent Society for American Archaeology annual meetings (1983, 1991, and 1992) is taken to examine the state of American archaeology. Roughly 80 percent of the presentations focus on New World archaeology, and between 60 and 80 percent are concerned with the last 3,000 years. In the last 10 years, there has been a slight shift away from subsistence and production studies to a greater concern with settlement and regional systems, sociopolitical organization, and public archaeology. A major trend has been increased participation by women.

Preface

1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
M. Crawford Young
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Program Committee ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
25Th Annual Meeting

One of the more charming and usually harmless attributes of humankind is our propensity to impute mystical significance to intrinsically ordinary events. Thus it is that, in regularly recurrent rites, particular numbers in the unending sequence acquire singular symbolic prominence: 10, 25, 50, 100. Why these numbers and not others?No ready answer comes to mind. Certainly none was sought by the remarkably energetic Program Committee which, working with our Howard University hosts, organized with superb skill the 25th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. “XXV” connoted a silver anniversary, a rite de passage which commanded observation.Commemorate, then, but how? On due reflection, the Program Committee struck upon the formula of a review and inventory of Africanist scholarship during the quarter century which has elapseed since the birth of the Association. What had been the major intellectual trends in the various fields of Africanist scholarship? How had the major paradigms which have shaped conceptual discourse evolved over these years?Early in the life of the Association, a comprehensive survey of Africanist scholarship had been undertaken, under the direction of Robert Lystad (published as The African World, Praeger, 1965). The preliminary inventory, organized by academic discipline, serves as a valuable benchmark in intellectual history. To reread its useful essays today is to be reminded of the magnitude of the changes in problematic and perspective since that time.

An Introduction to Five Papers on the Archaic Stage

1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Byers
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
World Archaeology ◽  
Scientific Congress ◽  
Pan American

The word “archaic” appears in the literature of New World archaeology with more than one usage. In 1910, the existence of three levels of human remains was demonstrated in the Valley of Mexico. The lowest level, in which well-developed ceramics were included, was characterized by hand-modeled human figurines in contrast to the mold made ones of Toltec and Aztec horizons. The civilization of the lowest level came to be called “the archaic type” (Boas 1915). Tozzer (1916: 466), in a paper presented at the Pan American Scientific Congress, Washington, 1915, noted that the terms “tipo de cerro” and “tipo de montaña” had also been used, and suggested that “Archaic” was a more fitting term.

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