Bruce Trigger

Bruce Graham Trigger, OC, OQ, FRSC ( born June 18, 1937 in Preston, † 1 December 2006) was a Canadian anthropologist and archaeologist.

Bruce Trigger studied at Yale University. Here he received his doctorate in 1964 and initially focused on the altnubischen culture. After he taught for a year at Northwestern University, he went to the Anthropological Institute of the McGill University in Montreal. Here he became known for his two-volume study of the Hurons, The Children of Aataentsic (1976). In recognition of this work he was even an honorary member of the Huron - Wendat Nation.

He achieved international fame through his book A History of Archaeological Thought ( 1989), where he dealt with the theory and the basics of archeology. With his latest book, Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study ( 2003), he was a major comparative archaeologist. Here he presented the differences and similarities of prehistoric and ancient cultures such as those of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Latin America or the pre-colonial Africa dar.

Trigger has many awards and honors. 2003 dedicated the Society for American Archaeology an event trigger work. In 2001 he was Officer of the Ordre national du Québec, and two years later the Order of Canada. He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada and in 1985 was awarded the Innis - Gérin medal. In 1991 he was awarded the Prix Léon- Gérin.

Writings

  • History and Settlement in Lower Nubia. New Haven: Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 1965.
  • Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
  • The Huron: Farmers of the North. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, revised edition, 1990.
  • The Impact of Europeans on Huronia. Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1969.
  • The Meroitic Funerary Inscriptions from Arminna West. New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania - Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1970.
  • (with JF Pendergast ) Cartier 's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site. Montreal: McGill - Queen's University Press, 1972.
  • The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 Montreal. McGill - Queen's University Press, 1976.
  • Nubia Under the Pharaohs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
  • Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978 (U.S. edition New York: Columbia University Press).
  • Handbook of North American Indians, Vol 15, North East, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
  • Gordon Childe: Revolutions in Archaeology. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
  • (with BJ Kemp, D. O'Connor, and AB Lloyd) Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  • Natives and Newcomers: Canada's " Heroic Age " Revisited. Montreal: McGill - Queen's University Press, 1985.
  • A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt in Context. New York: Columbia, 1993.
  • The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas [ vol. I]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and Contingency. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
  • Artifacts and Ideas: Essays in Archaeology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.
  • Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Cambridge (Ontario) December 1 Ancient history Integrated Authority File
148976
de