Overview

The essays in this volume highlight the history and development of the Archaeological Institute of America and address broad historical developments in the field of archaeology. Contributors examine the founders, practitioners, related institutions, and the times that shaped them.

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Author:   Susan Heuck Allen
Publisher:   Archaeological Institute of America
Imprint:   Archaeological Institute of America
Volume:   No. 5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780960904280

ISBN 10:   096090428
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   17 May 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Archaeological Institute of America timeline, 1879-2001, Phoebe A. Sheftel; the archaeology of the AIA - an introduction, Susan Heuck Allen; spirit of the times - 19th-Century European intellectualism, Nancy Thomson de Grummond; Charles Eliot Norton and the Archaeological Institute of America, Elizabeth Lyding Will; Americans in the East - Francis Henry Bacon, Joseph Thacher Clarke, and the AIA at Assos, Susan Heuck Allen; the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - scholarship and high culture in the gilded age, Caroline Winterer; Sending Out of Expeditions - the contest for Delphi, Phoebe A. Sheftel; between Athens and Babylon - the AIA and the politics of American Near Eastern archaeology, 1884-1997, Neil Asher Silberman; the Western Idea - local societies and American archaeology, James E. Snead; the dream that failed - the AIA's department of Canada (1908-1915), James Russell; the Archaeological Institute of America between the wars, Stephen L. Dyson; the great divides - the AIA and professional responsibility in archaeology, Clemency Coggins; computer technology and the Archaeological Institute of America, Harrison Eiteljorg II; appendices - past presidents of the Archaeological Institute of America and editors-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology (1879-2002), Susan Heuck Allen and Kim M. Hebert; award and fellowship winners of the Archaeological Institute of America (1965-1999), Susan Heuck Allen and Kim M. Hebert; current local societies of the Archaeological Institute of America in order of their charters of foundation, Susan Heuck Allen and Kim M. Hebert; inclusive list of AIA local societies with name changes and dates of foundation and dissolution, Wendy O'Brien; Charles Eliot Norton lecturers, Priscilla Murray.

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