A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
This collection of Ford's works focuses on the development of
ceramic chronology--a key tool in Americanist archaeology.
When James Ford began archaeological fieldwork in 1927, scholars
divided time simply into prehistory and history. Though certainly
influenced by his colleagues, Ford devoted his life to establishing
a chronology for prehistory based on ceramic types, and today he
deserves credit for bringing chronological order to the vast
archaeological record of the Mississippi Valley.
This book collects Ford's seminal writings showing the
importance of pottery styles in dating sites, population movements,
and cultures. These works defined the development of ceramic
chronology that culminated in the major volume "Archaeological
Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947," which
Ford wrote with Philip Phillips and James B. Griffin. In addition
to Ford's early writings, the collection includes articles written
with Griffin and Gordon Willey, as well as other key papers by
Henry Collins and Fred Kniffen.
Editors Michael O'Brien and Lee Lyman have written an
introduction that sets the stage for each chapter and provides a
cohesive framework from which to examine Ford's ideas. A foreword
by Willey, himself a participant in this chronology development,
looks back on the origin of that method. "Measuring the Flow of
Time" traces the development of culture history in American
archaeology by providing a single reference for all of Ford's
writing on chronology. It chronicles the formation of one of the
most important tools for understanding the prehistory of North
America and shows its lasting relevance.
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