Talk:Robert McCormick Adams Jr.

FYI, bio and photo for Robert McC. Adams are online at UCSD's website: http://www.anthro.ucsd.edu/Faculty_Profiles/adams.html http://www.anthro.ucsd.edu/Faculty_Profiles/pics/adams.jpg Aboudaqn (talk) 19:42, 30 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

There is a photo of him on http://anthro.ucsd.edu/Faculty_Profiles/adams.html I am not sure if it is copyrighted StevinSimon (talk) 22:30, 18 November 2011 (UTC)Reply

This section is set up to document the highlights of Adams' biography as an aid to developing this article further. drs (talk) 04:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

1926

July 23, Born

1965

Presented the Henry Lewis Morgan Lectures at the University of Rochester^[1]

1966

Published the Henry Lewis Morgan Lectures as The Evolution of Urban Society.^[1]

1976

He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the American Anthropological Association in 1976.^[2]

1984

Becomes Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution^[2]

1989

Serves on the National Academy of Science's Committee for the Conduct of Science

1994

Retires from being Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution^[2]

1996

Recipient of a Distinguished Service Award from the Society for American Archaeology.^[2]

2002

Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America^[1]

2009

The University of Chicago, Alumni Award^[3]

Robert McC. Adams is noted for influencing science, and in particular, anthropology. This section is for the documenting of that influence. drs (talk) 15:54, 18 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

• Carter, Charles Edward (1999). The Emergence of Yehud in the Persian Period: A Social and Demographic Study. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement series, The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies. Vol. 294. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, Ltd. pp. 175, 176. ISBN 1-84127-012-1.

This text credits Adams with helping to move Archaeology from a "source-driven" survey approach which focused on the Biblical text to "problem-oriented" surveys which were seeking to address specific research questions. drs (talk) 16:14, 18 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

• "Undergraduate Awards for Excellence, Robert McC. Adams Award for Excellence in Anthropological Archaeology". Department of Anthropology. University of California San Diego. last modified 08-25-2011. Retrieved 2012-04-18. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

Robert McC. Adams, an adjunct member of the University of California San Diego Department of Anthropology, is a major comparative archaeologist of early state formation, and a pioneer in the study of broad regional systems.

Books, as participant on a committee of authors

• On Being a Scientist by the Committee on the Conduct of Science, National Academy of Sciences, 1989 and 1995 edition.
• Rediscovering Geography Committee, National Research Council (1997). Rediscovering Geography: New Relevance for Science and Society. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. p. 248. ISBN 978-0-309-07679-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Research

• Adams, Robert McCormick. 1965. Land beind Baghdad. Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press.
• Adam, Robert McCormick, and H.J. Nissen. 1972. The Uruk Countryside. Chicago: Univeristy of Chicago Press.

Articles

• "Ideologies: Unity and Diversity" (1992)
• "Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade" (1974).
• Paths of Fire - An Anthropologist's Inquiry into Western Technology (1966).

"This insightful volume explores the interaction between the forces of social and technological change and the implications of this interaction for the modern world."^[1]

http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/center/org/AdamsCV05.pdf

Sarah (talk) 16:40, 26 May 2012 (UTC)Reply