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Prepared By
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Grant MacEwan College
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, Table of Contents
Chapter 1____________________________________________________________________1
Chapter 2____________________________________________________________________7
Chapter 3___________________________________________________________________14
Chapter 4___________________________________________________________________20
Chapter 5___________________________________________________________________27
Chapter 6___________________________________________________________________33
Chapter 7___________________________________________________________________39
Chapter 8___________________________________________________________________45
Chapter 9___________________________________________________________________48
Chapter 10__________________________________________________________________55
Chapter 11__________________________________________________________________63
Chapter 12__________________________________________________________________70
Chapter 13__________________________________________________________________78
Chapter 14__________________________________________________________________85
Chapter 15__________________________________________________________________92
Chapter 16__________________________________________________________________99
Chapter 17_________________________________________________________________105
Chapter 18_________________________________________________________________111
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, CHAPTER 1: MEET SOME REAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS
I. PREVIEW
II. INTRODUCTION
A. Who Was Kwäday Dän Ts’inchi”?
B. Who Controls Human Remains?
C. Kwäday Dän Ts’inchi”and Archaeology in North America
Looking Closer: Indian or First Nations, Eskimo or Inuit?
III. THE WESTERN WORLD DISCOVERS ITS PAST
A. Archaeology and Society
Looking Closer: AD/BC/BP . . . Archaeology’s Alphabet Soup
B. The Discovery of Deep Time
C. Archaeology and Native Americans
IV. FOUNDERS OF AMERICANIST ARCHAEOLOGY
Looking closer: The Development of Archaeology in Canada
A. David Boyle: Antiquarian Schoolteacher Extraordinaire
B. Diamond Jenness: One of Canada’s First Academic Archaeologists
C. A.V. “Ted” Kidder: Founder of Anthropological Archaeology
In His Own Words: The Pan-Scientific Approach to Archaeology by A.V. Kidder
D. James A. Ford: A Master of Time
In His Own Words: The Goals of Archaeology by James A. Ford
E. North American Archaeology at Mid-Twentieth Century
V. REVOLUTION IN ARCHAEOLOGY: AN ADVANCING SCIENCE
A. Walter W. Taylor: Moses in the Wilderness
B. Lewis R. Binford: Visionary with a Message
Looking Closer: Did the New Archaeology Catch on in Canada?
C. Bruce G. Trigger: Canadian Historian of World Archaeology
VI. ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
A. Aubrey Cannon: Archaeology Comes of Age
VII. Conclusion: Archaeology’s Future
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