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