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came this very brief notice:
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Bruce Trigger, one of Canada's most eminent archaeologists and a
McGill University professor, died on Friday at the age of 69.

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The Wikipedia has an entry on him and his work,

from which I excerpt the following:

Bruce Graham Trigger (born June 18, 1937 died December 1, 2006) is
a Canadian archaeologist.

Born in Preston, Ontario, he received a doctorate in archaeology
from Yale University in 1964. His research interests include the
history of archaeological research and the comparative study of
early cultures. He taught at Northwestern University for a year in
1964 and since then has been in the Department of Anthropology at
McGill University in Montréal. For his in-depth study of the
ethnohistory of the Hurons, he has been adopted as an honorary
member of the Huron-Wendat Nation. His book A History of
Archaeological Thought is a must for anyone who wishes to
understand the development of archaeology as a discipline. In 2003
a session at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) conference
was dedicated to the research of Bruce Trigger.

In 2001, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In
2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. A Fellow of
the Royal Society of Canada, he won their Innis-Gérin Medal in
1985. In 1991, he won the Quebec government's Prix Léon-Gérin.

Bibliography

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* A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1989.
* Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt in Context. New York:
Columbia, 1993.
* The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
[vol. I]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
* Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and Contingency. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1998.
* Artifacts and Ideas: Essays in Archaeology. New Brunswick,
NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.
* Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

References
* Ronald F. Williamson and Michael S. Bisson (eds)

2006. The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger: Theoretical Empiricism.
McGill-Queens's University Press, Montréal.

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John F. Cherry
Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology &
the Ancient World, Brown University, PO Box 1837, 70 Waterman Street,
Providence, RI 02912


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Christopher Witmore PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University