Gordon R. Willey (1913–2002)
Author of A history of American archaeology
About the Author
Gordon R. Willey is Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology Emeritus at Harvard University.
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Series
Works by Gordon R. Willey
Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast (Southeastern Classics in Archaeology, Anthropology, and History) (1973) 26 copies
Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica, Parts 1 & 2. (Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 & 3) (1965) 14 copies
Courses toward urban life; archeological considerations of some cultural alternates (1962) — Editor — 14 copies
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peru (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Bulletin 155) (2016) 12 copies
Associated Works
New World and Pacific Civilizations: Cultures of America, Asia, and the Pacific (1994) — Foreword; Foreword — 85 copies, 1 review
To Illustrate the Monuments: Essays on Archaeology Presented to Stuart Piggott on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (1976) — Contributor — 8 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Willey, Gordon R.
- Legal name
- Willey, Gordon Randolph
- Birthdate
- 1913-03-07
- Date of death
- 2002-04-28
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Arizona
Columbia University (Ph.D.) - Occupations
- archaeologist
anthropologist
professor - Awards and honors
- Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement
Kidder Award for Eminence in the Field of American Archaeology
Huxley Medal - Birthplace
- Chariton, Iowa, USA
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
I thought this was a good overview of the history of archaeology in America.
This has been in my bookcase for years but I always turn to more recent references.
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