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Samuel M. Wilson

Samuel Meredith Wilson (born 1957) is an archaeologist and historical anthropologist who has conducted work in the Caribbean and North America. He is known for his research on the indigenous people of the islands of the Caribbean, and for works dealing with the interaction of human cultures in time and space. He received a B.A. in history from Southwest Missouri State University in 1978, and an M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1986) from the University of Chicago. He also received a Bachelor of Letters from the Australian National University in 1982. Wilson was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and Professor at the University of Texas. He was chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2003-2011, and chaired the Faculty Building Advisory Committee at the University of Texas several times between 2008 and 2018. He is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and a member of the Society for American Archaeology.

Books

 * 2007   The Archaeology of the Caribbean, Cambridge University Press, World Archaeology Series.
 * 2006   The Prehistory of Nevis, a small island in the Lesser Antilles, by Samuel M. Wilson with contributions by Lee Newsom, J. Daniel Rogers, Laura Kozuch, and Elizabeth Wing.  Yale University Publications in Anthropology.
 * 1999   The Emperor’s Giraffe, and Other Stories of Cultures in Contact.  Boulder: Westview Press.  (Paperback edition, 2000).
 * 1997   The Indigenous People of the Caribbean, an edited volume of 22 papers.  University Press of Florida. (Paperback edition published 1999).
 * 1993 Ethnohistory and Archaeology: Approaches to Postcontact Change in the Americas.  
 * J. Daniel Rogers and Samuel M. Wilson (eds).  New York: Plenum Press.
 * 1990 Hispaniola: Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Selected Articles

 * 2022   Maria Franklin, Samuel M. Wilson, and Matthew Matternes. “Biocultural and intersectional analyses of Black motherwork and children in Georgia.”  Southeastern Archaeology.
 * 2020  Maria Franklin and Samuel M. Wilson, “A Bioarchaeological Study of African American Health and Mortality in the Post-Emancipation U.S. South”, American Antiquity 85(4): 652-675.
 * 2012  "Redeveloping Student Life” Lawrence Speck, David Sharratt and Samuel Wilson, Texas Architect.
 * 2013  “Caribbean Archaeology in the Next 50 Years”, concluding chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Archaeology, edited by William F. Keegan, Corinne Hofmann, and Reniel Rodríguez Ramos.  Pp. 568-577.
 * 2005 “Afterword” in Dialogues in Cuban Archaeology, edited by L. Antonio Curet, Shannon L. Dawdy, and Gabino La Rosa.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
 * 2003 “Linking Prehistory and History in the Caribbean” in Corinne Hofman and André Delpuech (Eds.) The Late Ceramic in the Caribbean.  British Archaeological Reports.
 * 2002 (Samuel Wilson and Leighton Peterson) “The Anthropology of Online Communities.”  Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 31: 449-468.
 * 1998 Wilson, Samuel M., Harry B. Iceland, and Thomas R. Hester, “Preceramic connections between Yucatan and the Caribbean.”  Latin American Antiquity 9(4): 342-352.
 * 1997 “The Taíno Social and Political Order.”  In Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean.  (Catalogue of an exhibit at the Museo del Barrio, New York).  New York: Monacelli Press, pp. 46-55.
 * 1997 “The Caribbean Before European Conquest: A Chronology.”  In Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean.  (Catalogue of an exhibit at the Museo del Barrio, New York).  New York: Monacelli Press, pp. 14-17
 * 1997 “Surviving European Conquest in the Caribbean.”  Revista de Arqueología Americana, vol. 12: 141-160.
 * 1990 "Peopling the Antilles" Archaeology 43(5):52-57 (September/October).