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ON THE RECORD ABOUT WALT TAYLOR: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2018

Joseph B. Mountjoy
Joseph B. Mountjoy*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Artes, Educación y Humanidades, Universidad de Guadalajara Centro Universitario de la Costa, Av. Universidad #203, Delegación Ixtapa, CP 48280, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
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E-mail correspondence to: jbmountj@hotmail.com
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Abstract

Walter W. Taylor, especially through his 1948 monograph A Study of Archeology, has been a major influence on the theory and methods of American archaeology. His contribution has recently been assessed in a book by a number of students and colleagues, but none of them had first-hand experience with Walt in a fieldwork setting. This is an account of personal experiences with Walt Taylor, beginning in the graduate program at Southern Illinois University (SIU), but focused on a summer National Science Foundation (NSF) project in Zacatecas in 1964 that was designed to study Chalchihuites/Chichimec interactions in a frontier area, and what that fieldwork experience revealed about Walt Taylor as an archaeologist and as a person.

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Research Article
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Ancient Mesoamerica , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , Spring 2018 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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