1. Bruce Trigger was appointed the James McGill Professor at McGill University in 2001.
15 Facts About Bruce Trigger
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Bruce Trigger received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964.
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Bruce Trigger was taught by George Peter Murdock and Benjamin Irving Rouse.
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Bruce Trigger was co-supervised by William Kelly Simpson and Michael D Coe.
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Bruce Trigger became friends with K C Chang, a Chinese archaeologist, who joined the department during his final year of his PhD at Yale.
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Bruce Trigger spent the following year teaching at Northwestern University and subsequently took a position as assistant professor, with the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, and remained there for the rest of his career.
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Bruce Trigger was married to Dr Barbara Welch, a British geographer trained in Physical Geography, who, despite being less-known than her husband, was considered an equally sophisticated thinker.
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Bruce Trigger contributed to a wide range of fields and wrote on many aspects of archaeology.
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Bruce Trigger published over 20 books including the book "A History of Archaeological Thought" which became required reading in the discipline.
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In Natives and Newcomers Bruce Trigger, writing in the tradition of Franz Boas, argued that the colonial and Aboriginal societies of early Canada all possessed rich and complex social and cultural systems, and that there are no grounds to argue that any society of early Canada was superior to the others.
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Bruce Trigger published a number of articles on this topic:.
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Bruce Trigger made significant contributions to theory and debates on epistemological issues within archaeology.
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Bruce Trigger received a number of academic awards and numerous other honours such as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada from 1976, he became a recipient of their Innis-Gerin Medal in 1985.
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Bruce Trigger's most cherished honour was his adoption in 1989 into the Great Turtle Clan of the Wendat Confederacy, with the name Nyemea.
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Bruce Trigger's archive is kept at the McGill University Archives.