Linda S. Cordell

Linda S. Cordell Linda Sue Cordell (née Seinfeld, October 11, 1943 – March 29, 2013) was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and leading researcher in Southwestern archaeology. She was elected in 1973 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in 2005 a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Quotes The early history of field schools in Southwestern archaeology has recently been addressed by Gifford and Morris (1985), who emphasize the period between 1920 and 1940 when these institutions provided nearly the only pre-professional, practical experience for archaeology students. The kinds of field classes offered by Edgar Lee Hewett Edgar L. Hewett, founder of the University of New Mexico field school, have been described by Chauvenet (1983). Field schools have a recognized long and venerable history and have provided American archaeology with many of its most acclaimed practitioners. 1989 Dialogue with the Past: Thoughts on Some University of New Mexico Field Schools Journal of anthropological research 45 1 29–46 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/jar.45.1.3630168?journalCode=jar 10.1086/jar.45.1.3630168 William A. Longacre Longacre emphasizes the concern for facts, the tangible aspects of the archaeological record; the development of chronological techniques; Cultural trait trait lists; and writing of Cultural-history archaeology culture history informed by culture area theory; and a reluctance to make inferences about social organization. Archaeology could provide the historical continuity that challenged the cataclysms of the romantic school and allowed for the development of an anthropological science. Archaeological remains were important in their own right in the early evolutionist program. The remains provided a tangible record of the degree of mental development of various Native Americans in the United States Native American societies. The archaeological remains also provided continuity from the past to the present. The continuity is essential to the development of anthropological science which depends on an orderly universe. Observations of archaeological traits are made and comparisons are drawn among sites and regions, suggesting a scenario of culture history which might then be compared with the scenarios developed by Ethology ethnologists, linguists, and Osteology osteologists. Chapter 2. History and theory in reconstructing southwestern sociopolitical organization by Linda S. Cordell The Sociopolitical Structure Of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies 2019 Routledge 33–54 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429314612-2/history-theory-reconstructing-southwestern-sociopolitical-organization-linda-cordell 10.4324/9780429314612-2 9780813375380 (682 pages; edited by Steadman Upham, Kent G. Lightfoot, and Roberta A. Jewett; 1st edition published in 1989 by Westview Press) Between a.d. 1130 and 1180 a period of severe drought struck the Colorado Plateaus; this is the same time during which the Roads of Chaco Chacoan system appears to have disintegrated. Using the year a.d. 1150 as the beginning of the Pueblo III period recognizes the potentially widespread importance of a real event in Ancestral Puebloans Anasazi history; the end of building and probably, for 100 years, of occupation in Chaco Canyon. This is no small event given Chaco's role as a major center of activity, population, and exchange. Chapter 16. Big Sites, Big Questions: Pueblos in Transition by Linda S. Cordell The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150-1350 University of Arizona Press 2000 9780816520480 https://books.google.com/books?id=cawzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA228 228–240 (quote from p. 228; 278 pages; 1st edition 1996; edited by Michael A. Adler) External links Stephen Plog Plog, Stephen, 2014 Linda S. Cordell 1943-2013 Biographical Memoirs Washington, D.C National Academy of Sciences https://www.nasonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cordell-linda.pdf Category:1943 births Category:2013 deaths Category:Anthropologists from the United States Category:Archaeologists from the United States Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:Scientists from New York City Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Women scientists from the United States