Week 6 Binford

Gordon Willey

• Developed new ceramic stratigraphy with Ford
• Development theories on early settlements
• Discovered oldest pottery in Panama - Monagrillo Ceramics
• Excavations in Peru developed Processual Anthropology
• March 7, 1913 - April 28, 2002

Melville Herskovits

• Known for African-American studies
• Race as a sociological rather than biological
• Supported Cultural Relativism in his writings
• Fieldwork- Haiti, West/South Africa, Brazil
• September 10, 1895 - Febuary 26, 1963

James Ford

• Mississippian interested in Native American mound culture
• Excavations throughout Louisiana, Arkansas, and Georgia
• Built a timeline of lower Mississippi cultures
• Worked heavily with the Nation Parks Service
• Febuarry 12, 1917 - February 25, 1968

David Aberle

• Studied American Southwest -  The Peyote Religion
• Kinship system workings among proto-language speakers
• Collaborated with linguists to analyze language patterns
• Active in worldwide civil rights movements
• November 23, 1918 - September 23, 2004

Leslie White

• Culture a general human phenomenon
• Technological, Sociological, Ideological
• Development of technology is for survival
• Purpose of culture is to direct energy
• January 19, 1900 - March 31, 1975

Pictures

• http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41nq1YJTtxL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.j...
• http://www.amazon.com/The-Evolution-Culture-Development-Civilization-ebook/...
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Aberle#mediaviewer/File:Aberle_F.jpg
• http://reflexionesfinales.blogspot.com/2010/08/mississippi-mounds.html
• http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/05.02/13-willey.html