Title:	Settin! the Agenda for American Archaeology
Authors:	O'Brien, Michael]. R. Lee Lyman
Keywords:	American archaeology
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	The University of Alabama Press
Description:	One of the lesser-known aspects of Americanist archaeology is the substantial role played by the National Research Council during the 1920S and 1930S. Our use of the term "lesser-known" is not meant to imply that the role of the National Research Council (NRC) has gone unreported (see Griffin 1976a, 1985; Guthe 1952, 1967) but rather that its critical importance in shaping the course and complexion of Americanist archaeology has perhaps not been given the place in the history of the discipline that it deserves. And yet, it really wasn't the NRC itself that played the critical role but rather the archaeologists affiliated with it-persons such as Roland B. Dixon, A. V. Kidder, Frederick W. Hodge, Clark Wissler, and Carl E. Guthe. Their vehicle for plotting the future course of archaeology in the United States, especially in the Midwest and Southeast, was the Committee on State Archaeological Surveys (CSAS), which was organized in 1920 under the newly created Division of Anthropology and Psychology within the NRC. For 17 years, until it was abolished in June 1937, the CSAS labored to bring a sense of professionalism to the manner in which archaeology was being conducted in the United States.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52989
ISBN:	978-0-8173-1353-1
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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