Bruce Graham Trigger (born June 18, 1937) is a Canadian archaeologist.

Born in Preston, Ontario, he received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests include the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of early cultures. He taught at Northwestern University for a year in 1964 and since then has been in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal. For his in-depth study of the ethnohistory of the Hurons, he has been adopted as an honorary member of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

In 2001, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2005, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he won their Innis-Gérin Medal in 1985. In 1991, he won the Quebec government's Prix Léon-Gérin.

Bibliography

• History and Settlement in Lower Nubia. New Haven: Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 1965.
• The Late Nubian Settlement at Arminna West. New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1965.
• Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
• The Huron: Farmers of the North. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, revised edition, 1990.
• The Impact of Europeans on Huronia. Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1969.
• The Meroitic Funerary Inscriptions from Arminna West. New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1970.
• (with J.F. Pendergast) Cartier's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972.
• The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976.
• Nubia Under the Pharaohs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976.
• Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978 (U.S. edition New York: Columbia University Press).
• Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15. Northeast, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978.
• Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978.
• Gordon Childe: Revolutions in Archaeology. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
• (with B.J. Kemp, D. O'Connor, and A.B. Lloyd) Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
• Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Revisited. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985.
• A History of Archaeological Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt in Context. New York: Columbia, 1993.
• The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and Contingency. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
• Artifacts and Ideas: Essays in Archaeology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.
• Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

External links

• Bruce Graham Trigger at The Canadian Encyclopedia

1937 births | Living people | Canadian archaeologists | Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada | Officers of the National Order of Quebec | Officers of the Order of Canada | People from Waterloo Region, Ontario | McGill University faculty

Bruce Graham Trigger