Changing Aims of Americanist Archaeology: A Citations Analysis of American Antiquity. 1946-1975

Abstract

Citations analysis, which has become a standard research tool in a growing number of scientific fields, provides the basis for a study of changes in research orientations in Americanist archaeology. In a preliminary report, several trends recognizable in citations from American Antiquity are indicated. Especially apparent are those studies that deal with processual issues.

Self-Citation in Archaeology: Age, Gender, Prestige, and the Self

“…By gathering information on the quantity of citations received by specific authors, journals, or institutions and by tracking the age of citations, their context, and their volume, among other things, analysts have revealed information about the structure of academic disciplines at multiple scales and have tested wide-ranging inferences about the production of knowledge. Within archaeology, citation studies have confirmed shifts in theoretical paradigms (Sterud, 1978), explored gender inequities (Beaudry and White, 1994;Hutson, 2002;Victor and Beaudry, 1992), and analyzed cross-fertilization between journals (Rosenswig, 2005). However, with the exception of comments by Tilley (1990), no attention has been paid to self-citation, in which authors cite their own published works.…”

Walter Taylor and the history of American archaeology

“…Roberts headed the River Basin Survey, the largest and most successful archaeological project of its kind; held the presidency of the SAA in 1950; and held board and executive positions in the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceSection H, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and was the AAA representative to the National Research Council, all after the publication of Taylor's dissertation. Webb and Ritchie coordinated major archaeological surveys and excavations and published highly influential books (Haag, 1965;Sterud, 1978). Griffin was also highly influential as the director of the Ceramic Repository at the University of Michigan (Ford, 2002).…”

What is the `process' in cultural process and in processual archaeology?

“…Arnold, 1985;Bender and Wright, 1988;Flannery, 1968Flannery, , 1972Flannery, , 1999Glasow, 1978;A.L. Johnson 2004;Preucel, 1991;Redman, 1973;Renfrew, 1969Renfrew, , 1973Renfrew, , 1982Renfrew, , 1994Rosenswig, 2000;Rowlands, 1982;Sterud, 1978). In his introduction to an edited volume that resulted from a seminar explicitly meant to explore the virtues of adopting systems theory, Hill (1977: 8) noted that many key concepts and terms used in the seminar were not discussed, 'definitionally or otherwise.…”