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 Huron s, 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.
- ''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.
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