in appreciation of claude warren and susan rose's "william pengelly's techniques of archaeological excavation"
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Abstract
The short (40 pages) pamphlet by Warren and Rose (1994) provides
the answer to a complex question regarding credit for an important archaeological
methodology, stratigraphic excavation. Let me set the stage for this appreciation. Continuing research on the beginnings of stratigraphic excavations in
North America (Browman and Givens 1996), I sought the origins of the idea of actually
excavating by strata, rather than post-facto interpretation, seen in North American as
early as 1895 in the work of Henry Chapman Mercer, but not really introduced into the
repertoire of American techniques until the work of Gamio, Kidder and Nelson between
1911 and 1914. The roots of the latter three seemed to lie with individuals such as
Reisner, Boas, Uhle, who in turn seemed to rely on Hugo Obennaier, Gabriel de Mortillet,
Marcellin Boule, and perhaps Pitt-Rivers, while Mercer's work could be traced to Boule
and Albert Gaudry. Doggedly following back the roots, I found that Chapman (1989) could
make a reasonable case that Pitt-Rivers had actually learned of the idea of
stratigraphic excavation from Evans, Prestwich, and Lubbock, from the British
scientists working with the Upper and Middle Paleolithic excavations during
1858-1868.
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| Authors | ;David L. Browman |
| Journal | journal of porous media |
| Year | 1997 |
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