Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Digging through the Decades: A 90-year Retrospective on American Archaeology; Biennial Gordon Willey Session in the History of Archaeology" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This session reflects on how American archaeology has transformed over the last ninety years. We begin with the 1930s, during the time America was still in the depths of the Great Depression and when the Society for American Archaeology was founded. Major technological and theoretical developments will be considered and how these impact the practice of American archaeology today. Individual contributions span more than one decade as appropriate.