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H. Martin Wobst (Fig. 1) was born on December 12, 1943, in Eickelborn, Germany, and received a classical education at the Kaiser-Whilhelms-Gymnasium in Hannover, Germany. He arrived in the United States in May 1963 to study classical archaeology at the University of Michigan. After one classical archaeology class in his freshman year, he decided to switch to Anthropology. At Michigan, he earned his B.A. in 1966, his M.A. in 1968, and his Ph.D. in 1971. Wobst’s dissertation, entitled Boundary Conditions for Paleolithic Cultural Systems: A Simulation Approach, was directed by Robert Whallon, a student of Lewis Binford. He became a member of the faculty of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1971. Wobst retired from full-time teaching in the fall of 2010 after a remarkable career as an internationally recognized scholar, a superb teacher, and an effective administrator.
H. Martin Wobst
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References
Bruchac, M.M., S. Hart & H.M. Wobst. (ed.) 2010. Indigenous archaeologies: a reader in decolonization. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press.
Smith, C. & H.M. Wobst. (ed.) 2005. Indigenous archaeologies: decolonising theory and practice. London: Routledge.
Wobst, H.M. 1974a. The archaeology of band society - some unanswered questions, in B.J. Williams (ed.) A model of band society (Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology 29): v-xiii. Washington (DC): Society for American Archaeology.
- 1974b. Boundary conditions for Paleolithic social systems. American Antiquity 39: 147-178.
- 1976. Locational relationships in Paleolithic society. Journal of Human Evolution 5: 49-58.
- 1977. Stylistic behavior and information exchange, in C. Cleland (ed.) For the director: research essays in honor of James B. Griffin (Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Anthropological Papers 61): 317-342. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
- 1999. Style in archaeology or archaeologists in style, in E.S. Chilton (ed.) Critical approaches to the interpretation of material culture: 118-132. Salt Lake City (UT): University of Utah Press.
- 2005. Power to the (Indigenous) past and present! Or: the theory and method behind archaeological theory and method, in C. Smith & H.M. Wobst (ed.) Indigenous archaeologies: decolonizing theory and practice: 17-32. New York: Routledge.
- 2006. Artifacts as social interference: the politics of spatial scale, in G. Lock & B. Molyneaux (ed.) Confronting scale in archaeology: issues of theory and practice: 55-64. New York: Springer Verlag.
- 2007. Toilets as tools for teaching, in H. Burke & C. Smith (ed.) Archeology to delight and instruct. London: University College London Press.
- 2010. Indigneous archaeologies: a worldwide perspective on human materialities and human rights, in M.M. Bruchac, S.M. Hart & H.M. Wobst (ed.) Indigenous archaeologies: a reader on decolonization: 17-27. Walnut Creek (CA): Left Coast Press.
Further Reading
Wobst, H.M. 1990. Minitime and megaspace in the Paleolithic at 18 K and otherwise, in O. Soffer & C. Gamble (ed.) In the world at 18,000: 322-334. London: Unwyn and Hyman.
- 1993. Mobility and gene flow: some biological and social thoughts on the Paleolithic, in D.S. Krass, R.B. Thomas & J.W. Cole (ed.) Ela' Qua: essays in honor of Richard B. Woodbury (Research Report 28): 283-291. Amherst (MA): Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- 2000. Regions and late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers, in G.L. Peterkin & H.A. Price (ed.) Regional approaches to adaptation in late Pleistocene Western Europe (BAR International series 896): 221-229. Oxford: Archaeopress.
- 2001. Matter over mind: perishables and the glorification of materiality in archaeology, in B. Drooker (ed.) Fleeting identities: perishable material culture in archaeological research (Occasional Paper 28): 43-57. Carbondale (IL): Center for Archaeological Investigations.
- 2011. Foraging for information among foragers - an afterword, in R. Whallon, W.A. Lovis & R.K. Hitchcock (ed.) Information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands (Ideas, Debates and Perspectives 5): 43-57. Los Angeles (CA): Costen Institute of Archaeology Press.
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Paynter, R. (2014). Wobst, H. Martin. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1300
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