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Leone, Mark P. (Theory)

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Mark P. Leone (Fig. 1) is an American historical archaeologist who has promoted the application of critical theory in historical archaeology. Leone was born in 1940 in Waltham, Massachusetts, historically a manufacturing town in the western suburbs of Boston. He studied history as an undergraduate at Tufts University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in 1963. Leone received his graduate training in anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, earning a Master of Arts degree in 1966 and receiving his doctorate in 1968. He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University (1968–1975). Leone joined the faculty at the University of Maryland College Park in 1976 and was promoted to Professor in 1990. He served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology (1993–2003) and Chair of the University Senate (2000–2001).

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  • - 1988. The Georgian order as the order of merchant capitalism in Annapolis, Maryland, in M. P. Leone & P.B. Potter Jr. (ed.) The recovery of meaning: historical archaeology in the United States. Washington (DC): Smithsonian Institution Press.

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Further Reading

  • Daglish, C. 2007. Archaeology and democracy: an interview with Mark Leone. Archaeological Dialogues 14(1): 1-21.

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  • Leone, M. P. & S. D. Hurry. 1998. Seeing: the power of town planning in the Chesapeake. Historical Archaeology 32: 34-62.

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  • Leone, M. P. & P. B. Potter Jr. (ed.) 2003. The recovery of meaning: historical archaeology in the eastern United States. Clinton Corners (NY): Percheron Press (reprinted with Prologue).

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Matthew Palus

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  1. Department of Archaeology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Claire Smith

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Palus, M. (2014). Leone, Mark P. (Theory). In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_313

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