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Bruce G. Trigger

Bruce G. Trigger

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
51
Citations
12407
World Ranking
2548
National Ranking
140

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1976 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Bruce G. Trigger was affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research contributions spanned several fields within the social sciences and humanities.

The primary fields of study included:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

Their work covered a range of subfields such as:

  • Archeology
  • Anthropology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Museology
  • Paleontology

The main topics addressed in their publications were:

  • Museums and Cultural Heritage
  • Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
  • Canadian Identity and History

Bruce G. Trigger's recent papers included:

  • A Present of their Past? Anthropologists, Native People, and their Heritage (2021, Culture)
  • Archaeological Analysis and Concepts of Causality (2021, Culture)
  • Loaves and Fishes: Sustaining Anthropology at McGill (2021, Culture)
  • Evolutionism, Relativism and Putting Native People into Historical Context (2021, Culture)
  • Reply to Michael Ames (2021, Culture)

Their frequent publication venue was the journal Culture, with a total of seven publications.

Among their recognitions, Bruce G. Trigger was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1976, associated with the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Understanding early civilizations : a comparative study

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Monumental architecture: A thermodynamic explanation of symbolic behaviour

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]

    Jacqueline S. Solway;Richard B. Lee;Alan Barnard;M. G. Bicchieri

  • The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE IMAGE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • World Prehistory: A New Outline.

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  • Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique [and Comments and Reply]

    Timothy K. Earle;Robert W. Preucel;Elizabeth M. Brumfiel;Christopher Carr

  • Ancient Egypt: A Social History

    B. G. Trigger;B. J. Kemp;D. O'Connor;A. B. Lloyd

  • Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered

    Bruce G Trigger

  • Understanding Early Civilizations

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Ancient Egypt: List of figures

    B. G. Trigger;B. J. Kemp;D. O'Connor;A. B. Lloyd

  • Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]

    Michael J. Kolb;Ross Cordy;Timothy Earle;Gary Feinman

  • The Huron: Farmers of the North

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

    Bruce G. Trigger;Wilcomb E. Washburn

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade [and Comments and Replies]

    Robert McC. Adams;J. M. Adovasio;Burchard Brentjes;H. Neville Chittick

  • Nubia under the Pharaohs

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage

    Bruce G. Trigger;Colin Renfrew;Chris Scarre

  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    Brian Fagan;Bruce G. Trigger

  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    Stuart Piggott;Bruce G. Trigger

  • The Collapse of Complex Societies

    Bruce G. Trigger;Joseph A. Tainter

  • Handbook of North American Indians

    Yasuhide Kawashima;Bruce G. Trigger

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Renfrew
Colin Renfrew University of Cambridge
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon Wilfrid Laurier University
Nicholas J. Conard
Nicholas J. Conard University of Tübingen
Timothy Earle
Timothy Earle Northwestern University
Gary M. Feinman
Gary M. Feinman Field Museum of Natural History
Ian Hodder
Ian Hodder Stanford University
Robin Dennell
Robin Dennell University of Exeter
Stephen Shennan
Stephen Shennan University College London
Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold University of Aberdeen

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