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Published Works

Professional Career

  • The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony.

  • Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation

  • The Transformation of British Culture in the Eastern Cape

  • American Historical Archaeology: Methods and Results. Science vol. 239

  • History and Archaeological Theory: Walter Taylor Revisited

  • In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life

  • Invitation to Archaeology

Father of Historical Archaeology

Archaeology

North American colonial archaeology- Mas. & Va.

  • Smithsonian Institution ('58) River Basin Survey ('58)
  • Plimoth Plantation ('60)
  • 1967-1978 Assistant Director of Plimoth Plantation.
  • 1971-1972 Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
  • '72-'74 Society for American Archaeology, Executive Committee.
  • 1974 President, Society for Historical Archaeology.

Teaching

  • Ant., U of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). ('60-'61)
  • Visiting Associate Professor of Ant., Harvard ('65-'66)
  • Research Fellow N. American Anthropology, Harvard
  • Professor, Ant., Brown University.
  • Professor, Ant., University of California, Berkeley (UCB).
  • Emphasis on artifact analysis versus reports' interpretations
  • In Small Things Forgotten:The Archaeology of Early American Life
  • Demonstrated analysis without bias
  • Technological advancements important to archaeological advancement

References

Deetz, Fennell and Deetz, Patricia, Christopher and J. Eric.

"The Plymouth Colony Archive Project"

http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/JDeetzmem12.html

Beaudry, Mary C., Anne Elizabeth Yentsch

1992 The Art and mystery of historical archaeology : essays in honor of James Deetz. Boca Raton : CRC Press, Florida.

...And more Harvard

  • Finished Dissertation 1960
  • Written by 1959, Defended in spring of 1960
  • "An Archaeological Approach to Kinship Change in Eighteenth Century Arikara Culture"
  • Based on 2nd year graduate research
  • Awarded PhD. in June 1960

Back to Harvard

  • 1955 returned to finish in Anthro.
  • Hal Movius new adviser
  • A. V. Kidder
  • Earnest Hooton
  • Leslie Spier
  • Gordon Willey (persuaded onward, funded)
  • Senior Year, teaching asst. William H. Howells

James "Jim" Deetz

February 8, 1930 – November 25, 2000

A lull in Education

Childhood

  • 1951 entered Air Force
  • 5 years of duty (only finished 2 years school)
  • Greenland
  • California Indian course
  • Excavation @ Abandoned Village
  • Int'l conflict w/ King because "bored with collecting butterflies and watching birds"
  • Cumberland, Maryland 1930
  • John Harold Deetz & Catherine Fanto Deetz
  • Sister- Barbara Deetz
  • Bird-watching and butterfly collecting
  • Thespian in High school
  • Fort Hill High Players and a National Thespian

Academics

"Harvard, Back to Harvard, and Harvard Again."

  • 1948 Harvard Med School
  • Switched to Anthropology
  • Failed Chemistry, but fascinated by Anthro. intro.
  • J. O. Brew, Peabody Museum director
  • Deetz's main mentor
  • Introduced to excavations
  • June 1950: Don Lehmer's Dodd site field crew in South Dakota
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