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The Tucson Garbage Project is an archaeological and sociological study instituted in 1973 by Dr. William Rathje in the city of Tucson in the Southwestern American state of Arizona. [1] This project is sometimes referred to as the "garbology project".
William Laurens Rathje (July 1, 1945 – May 24, 2012) was an American archaeologist. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona , with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and was consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University .
A. J. Weberman invented the word garbology in 1971 when he went through Bob Dylan's trash. [4] William Rathje's start of his ecologically oriented garbology excavations began in 1987. [5] Rathje was hoping to find more information regarding what the landfills contained as well as to examine how garbage reacts in its environment. During the time ...
The very first program, Garbology, built on the work of Dr. William Rathje of the Stanford University Archaeology Center and pivoted on the very real, global issues of waste management, drew national attention and was rewarded the Emerald Award for Excellence in Environmental Education. The students, the program, and the project director, Dr ...
Despite a history reaching back as far, at least, as William Rathje's "garbology" project, [6] Contemporary archaeology remains a new sub-discipline within the university. In remaining focused on archaeology's ability to tell stories that reach beyond official or formal discourse, contemporary archaeology has the potential to offer significant ...
"Behavioural Archaeology" was first published by Michael B. Schiffer, J. Jefferson Reid, and William L. Rathje in 1975 in the American Anthropologist journal. [1] Leading up to the publication, archaeology as a discipline was expanding in its practice and theory due to the specialisation of various areas and new ideas that were being presented to the community.
William Rathje – archaeologist, Garbage Project director; Peter M. Rhee – physician; Elizabeth Roemer – astronomer; Peter Smith – scientist, principal investigator of Phoenix Project; Andrew Weil – doctor who promotes integrative medicine; Wieslaw Z. Wisniewski – astronomer
William Rathje (class of 1963), archaeologist, best known as "Professor of Garbology", while heading the Tucson Garbage Project at the University of Arizona [40] Grote Reber (class of 1929), amateur astronomer, constructed one of the first radio telescopes in his Wheaton backyard, and conducted the first radio survey of the sky [40]