Cargando…

Accidental archaeologist : memoirs of Jesse D. Jennings /

Few archaeologists have had as great an impact on American archaeology as Jesse Jennings. A founder of Great Basin archaeology, professor of anthropology for more than forty years, founder and director of the Utah Museum of Natural History, director of the Glen Canyon salvage team and such famous ex...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jennings, Jesse D. (Jesse David), 1909-1997
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1994.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Few archaeologists have had as great an impact on American archaeology as Jesse Jennings. A founder of Great Basin archaeology, professor of anthropology for more than forty years, founder and director of the Utah Museum of Natural History, director of the Glen Canyon salvage team and such famous excavations as Danger, Hogup, and Cowboy caves, Jesse Jennings is a legend in the archaeological profession. Opinionated, rough-edged, direct, and insightful, Jennings takes readers from his youth in New Mexico, Baptist college, through graduate school at the University of Chicago in the '30s, early professional postings in the Southeast, the war years, work on the plains, Kaminaljuyu in Guatemala, and on to his lengthy tenure and influential work at the University of Utah as archaeologist and mentor. Jennings concludes his memoirs with a look at the current practice of archaeology.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxi, 307 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-301) and index.
ISBN:0585129940
9780585129945