Patty Jo Watson
Patty Jo Watson | |
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Born | |
Known for | Processual Archaeology, Cave Archaeology |
Spouse | Richard "Red" Watson |
Academic background | |
Education | University of Chicago |
Thesis | Early-village farming in the Levant and its environment. (1959) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert John Braidwood |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Patty Jo Watson (born 1932).
She is now Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Archaeology at
Education
In 1952, Watson, a junior at
Watson earned her M.A. in 1956 and her Ph.D. in 1959 from the University of Chicago.[3][5] Watson's dissertation examined "Early Village Farming in the Levant and its Environment."[6]
Career
Watson devoted much of her early career to the archaeological study of the Ancient Near East.[2][3] Her husband Richard A. Watson convinced her to change her focus from Near Eastern archaeology to work in North America.[4]
Watson is a proponent of processual archaeology and has contributed greatly to that approach.[2][7]
In addition, Watson has been instrumental in applying ethnography to the archaeological record.
Watson was hired to teach anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis in 1968. She retired in 2004.[5]
Accolades
In 1988, Watson was elected to the
Selected publications
- 1971 Explanation in Archeology: An Explicitly Scientific Approach
- 1974 Archaeology of the Mammoth Cave Area. Academic Press, New York.
- 1979 The razor's edge: Symbolic-structuralist archaeology and the expansion of archaeological inference, with comments by Michael Fotiadis. American Anthropologist 92:613-629.
- 1995 Archaeology, anthropology, and the culture concept. American Anthropologist 97:683-694.
- 1996 Of caves and shell mounds in West-Central Kentucky. In Of Caves and Shell Mounds. Co-edited with Kenneth Carstens. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
- 1999 From the Hilly Flanks of the Fertile Crescent to the Eastern Woodlands of North America. In Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States, edited by N.M. White, L.P. Sullivan and R.A. Marrinan. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 286–297.
- 1999 Ethnographic Analogy and Ethnoarchaeology. In Archaeology, History and Culture in Palestine and the Near East: Essays in Memory of Albert E. Glock, edited by T. Kapitan. American Schools of Oriental Research, ASOR Books, Volume 3. Atlanta, GA: Scholar's Press, pp. 47–65.
References
- ^ "Watson, Patty Jo (1932-) - People and organisations". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ a b c Lindsey Alston, ed. (2007). "Patty Jo Watson". EMuseum. Minnesota State University, Mankato. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ a b c "Patty Jo Watson Faculty Home Page". Washington University in St. Louis. Archived from the original on October 24, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ ISSN 0041-9508. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
- ^ a b c d Eavy, Tara. "Patty Jo Watson". msu-anthropology.github.io. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
- ^ "Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement". Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 2021-02-18.
- ^ Herst, K. Kris. "Patty Jo Watson". About.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-22. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ a b "Academy Fellows: Patty Jo Watson, Ph.D." Academy of Science-St. Louis. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ ISSN 0274-7529. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
- ^ "Archaeological Institute of America - Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement". Archived from the original on 2007-09-25. Retrieved 2010-04-07.. Retrieved 2010-2-12.
- ^ "Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology - Archaeological Institute of America". www.archaeological.org. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- ^ "Patty Jo Watson Award" (PDF). Horizon and Tradition. 81 (1). Southeastern Archaeological Conference: 12. 2019.