Bruce Graham Trigger (June 18, 1937–December 1, 2006) was a Canadian archaeologist. June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...

Born in Preston, Ontario, 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 Montréal, and remained on faculty there for the rest of his career. Map of the Region of Waterloo with Cambridge in red. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Northwestern University is a prestigious private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university, located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. ... Anthropology is the study of the anatomical and mental composition of humanity through the examination of historical and present geographical distribution, cultural history, acculturation, cultural relationships, and racial classifications. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, non-denominational, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony) Ville de Montréal, Québec, Canada Location. ...

He was arguably best known for The Children of Aataentsic, his two-volume study of the Huron peoples, a work which remains the definitive study on the history and ethography of that people. The Children of Aataentsic earned Trigger numerous accolades, including adoption by the Huron-Wendat Nation as an honorary member. Trigger would later reiterate some of the key arguments of the book in Natives and Newcomers, a polemical work aimed at educated laypeople. In Natives and Newcomers Trigger, writing in the tradition of Franz Boaz, argued that the colonial and Aboriginal societies of early Canada all possessed rich and complex social and cultural systems, and that there are no grounds to argue that any society of early Canada as superior to the others. This article is about the First Nations people, the Wyandot, also known as the Huron. ... The Huron-Wendat Nation is a Huron-Wendat community whose reserve is at Wendake, just outside of Quebec City. ... Franz Boas Franz Boas (July 9, 1858 – December 21, 1942[1]) was one of the pioneers of modern anthropology and is often called the Father of American Anthropology. Born in Minden, Germany, Boas worked for most of his life in North America. ...

Trigger's book A History of Archaeological Thought investigates the development of theory and archaeology as a discipline. In Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study Trigger uses an integrated theoretical approach to look at the meaning of similarities and differences in the formation of complex societies in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang of China, Aztecs and Classic Maya of Mesoamerica, Inka of the Andes, and Yoruba of Africa. In 2003 a session at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) conference was dedicated to the research of Bruce Trigger. Khafres Pyramid (4th dynasty) and Great Sphinx of Giza (c. ... Mesopotamia refers to the region now occupied by modern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran. ... Shang Dynasty (Chinese: 商朝) or Yin Dynasty (殷代) (1600 BC - 1046 BC) followed the legendary Xia Dynasty and preceded the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC) in China. ... The Aztecs were a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries who built an extensive empire in the late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican chronology. ... 74. ... For other meanings of Inca, see Inca (disambiguation). ... The Yoruba (Yorùbá in Yoruba orthography) are a large ethno-linguistic group or ethnic nation in Africa; the majority of them speak the Yoruba language (ede Yorùbá). The Yoruba constitute approximately 21 percent of Nigerias total population,[1] and around 30 million individuals throughout the region of... The Society for American Archaeology is the largest organization of professional archaeologists of the Americas in the world. ...

In 2001, Trigger 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. 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The National Order of Quebec (French: Ordre national du Québec) is an order of merit bestowed by the government of Quebec, Canada. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ... The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Prix Léon-Gérin is an award by the Government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Québec, which goes to researchers in one of the social sciences. It is named in honour of Léon Gérin. ...

Trigger died on December 1, 2006, of cancer.

Bibliography

• History and Settlement in Lower Nubia. New Haven: Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 1965.
• The Late Nubian Settlement at Arminna West. New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1965.
• Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
• The Huron: Farmers of the North. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, revised edition, 1990.
• The Impact of Europeans on Huronia. Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1969.
• The Meroitic Funerary Inscriptions from Arminna West. New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1970.
• (with J.F. Pendergast) Cartier's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972.
• The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976.
• Nubia Under the Pharaohs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
• Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978 (U.S. edition New York: Columbia University Press).
• Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15. Northeast, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
• Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978.
• Gordon Childe: Revolutions in Archaeology. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
• (with B.J. Kemp, D. O'Connor, and A.B. Lloyd) Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
• Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Revisited. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985.
• 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.
• A History of Archaeological Thought. 2nd ed.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

References

• Ronald F. Williamson and Michael S. Bisson (eds)

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

External links

• Bruce Graham Trigger at The Canadian Encyclopedia