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Bruce G. Trigger

Born

in Preston, Ontario, Canada

June 18, 1937

Died

December 01, 2006

Genre

Archaeology

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Bruce Graham Trigger, OC OQ FRSC was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian.

He received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests at that time included the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of early cultures. He spent the following year teaching at Northwestern University and then took a position with the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, and remained there for the rest of his career.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 721 ratings · 61 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	A History of Archaeological Thought 3.82 avg rating — 406 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study 3.75 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Huron: Farmers of the North 3.61 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1969 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancient Egypt: A Social History by Bruce G. Trigger, B.J. Kemp, D. O'Connor 3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1983 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 (Volume 195) (Carleton Library Series) 4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered 4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1985 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol I, Part 1: North America by Bruce G. Trigger (Editor), Wilcomb E. Washburn (Editor) 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt in Context 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gordon Childe, Revolutions in Archaeology 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and Contingency 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Cambridge History Of The Native Peoples Of The Americas (9 books)
by

Bruce G. Trigger,

Wilcomb E. Washburn (Editor),

Richard E.W. Adams (Editor),

Murdo J. MacLeod (Editor),

Stuart B. Schwartz (Editor),

Frank Salomon (Editor)

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“The ability to expend energy, especially in the form of other people's labour, in non-utilitarian ways, is the most basic and universally understood symbol of power.”
― Bruce Trigger

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“Clark also maintained that someone with no excavation experience was not equipped to interpret archaeological data, thereby implicitly denying the distinction that some British culture-historical archaeologists were drawing between archaeologists and prehistorians.”
― Bruce G. Trigger, A History of Archaeological Thought

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