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From page 399... ... His pivotal contributions to science during his long productive life included excavations of archaeological sites in the southeastern United States, Peru, Panama, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras; detailed ceramic studies that provided data on cultural change in prehistoric societies through time and through space; syntheses of common cultural themes in Mesoamerica and South America; and especially his creation of the field of "settlement pattern studies," an extraordinary theoretical and methodological advance that he pioneered in the Viru Valley of Peru in a single season, in 1946 (Fash, in press) Read the entire page →
From page 400... ... 400 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S Professor Tozzer married Margaret Castle from one of the wealthy and famous "five families" of Hawaii that he became a member of the elite in Cambridge. At the age of 12 Willey moved to Long Beach, California, with his parents. Read the entire page →
From page 401... ... The collaboration with Ford also led to an innovative article "An Interpretation of the Prehistory of the Eastern United States" (1941) that became a classic in American archaeology. Read the entire page →
From page 402... ... Willey's next field experience occurred in the Viru Valley in Peru in 1946 as a member of the project team consisting of archaeologists Duncan Strong, Clifford Evans, James Ford, Junius Bird, Donald Collier, and Willey, along with geographer F Read the entire page →
From page 403... ... . As it turned out Willey's Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peru (1953) Read the entire page →
From page 404... ... . The settlement pattern focus had the additional scientific advantage of relating to ethnographic studies of the structure of contemporary Mayan communities and espe Read the entire page →
From page 405... ... Gordon Willey's publications on the Belize Valley project stimulated me to pay close attention to settlement patterns when I began my long-range study of Tzotzil-Maya communities in the highlands of Chiapas.1 Willey and I also taught courses together (especially "Peoples and Cultures of North and South America") and offered a joint seminar on "The Maya" for many years. Read the entire page →
From page 406... ... 406 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S sundown Ledyard would have one of his men cut a heart of palm for hors d'oeuvres. Then Ledyard would break out a bottle of S Read the entire page →
From page 407... ... This interest was best expressed in his highly influential 1958 book with his Peabody Museum colleague Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology. This path-breaking volume was "must" reading for a generation of American archaeologists and was recently republished. Read the entire page →
From page 408... ... 408 B I O G R A P H I C A L M E M O I R S first-generation states stimulated in some way by the prior appearance of widespread art styles among neighboring chiefdoms? Marcus suggests that much of chiefly art communicated and extolled the attributes that chiefs wanted, such as bravery and success in battle, and close genealogical ties to heroic ancestors and supernatural forces. Read the entire page →
From page 409... ... , and Lowland Maya Settlement Patterns (Ashmore, 1991) Read the entire page →
From page 410... ... Understandably he became a mentor for dozens of students and younger colleagues in anthropology. But Gordon Willey's impact in the long run will come from his impressive publications, articles in scientific journals, technical monographs on every site he ever excavated, and more general books, such as his A History of American Archaeology with J Read the entire page →
From page 411... ... Vogt. Some aspects of Zinacantan settlement patterns and ceremonial organization. Read the entire page →
From page 412... ... In Prehistoric Settlement Patterns: Essays in Honor of Gordon R Willey, eds. Read the entire page →
From page 413... ... 113. 1953 Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Viru Valley, Peru. Read the entire page →
From page 414... ... 1974 The Viru Valley settlement pattern study. In Archaeological Researches in Retrospect, ed. Read the entire page →
From page 415... ... In Prehistoric Settlement Patterns: Essays in Honor of Gordon R Willey, eds. Read the entire page →

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... His pivotal contributions to science during his long productive life included excavations of archaeological sites in the southeastern United States, Peru, Panama, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras; detailed ceramic studies that provided data on cultural change in prehistoric societies through time and through space; syntheses of common cultural themes in Mesoamerica and South America; and especially his creation of the field of "settlement pattern studies," an extraordinary theoretical and methodological advance that he pioneered in the Viru Valley of Peru in a single season, in 1946 (Fash, in press)