James Deetz was an American anthropologist, often known as one of the fathers of historical archaeology

Historical archaeology

Historical archaeology is a form of archaeology dealing with topics that are already attested in written records. These records can both complement and conflict with the archaeological evidence found at a particular site. Studies tend to focus on literate, historical-period societies as opposed...

. His work focused on culture change and the cultural aspects inherent in the historic and archaeological record, and was concerned primarily with the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies. Deetz taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

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, Harvard, Brown

Brown University

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, William and Mary

College of William and Mary

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, the University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town

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, the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, and the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

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. He received his B.A.

Bachelor of Arts

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, M.A.

Master's degree

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, and Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 degrees from Harvard. Deetz died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in November of 2000.

Published works

• The Times of Their Lives: Life, Love, and Death in Plymouth Colony. (With Patricia Scott Deetz). New York: W.H. Freeman. 2000.
• In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life. (Expanded and revised edition). New York: Anchor, Doubleday. 1996.
• Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation, 1619- 1864. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 1993.
• The Transformation of British Culture in the Eastern Cape, 1820-1860 (with Margot Winer). Social Dynamics vol. 16 no.1 pp. 55–75. 1990.
• American Historical Archaeology: Methods and Results. Science vol. 239, January 22: 362-7. 1988.
• History and Archaeological Theory: Walter Taylor Revisited. American Antiquity 53(1):13-22. 1988.
• In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life. New York: Doubleday. 1977.
• Invitation to Archaeology. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press. 1967

External links

• James Deetz, University of Virginia Anthropology Department
• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
• Flowerdew Hundred Plantation
  Flowerdew Hundred Plantation
  Flowerdew Hundred Plantation dates to 1618/19 with the patent by Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of Virginia, of on the south side of the James River. Yeardley probably named the plantation after his wife's wealthy father, Anthony Flowerdew, just as he named another...