Sabloff, Paula     Conversations with Lew Binford: Drafting the New Archaeology.

  1998     University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, OK.

This is one of three extensive interviews with Dr. Lewis R. Binford of which I am aware.  Another, by Colin Renfrew, was published in Current Anthropology, and the third is a video interview currently being sold as a fundraiser by Dr. Amber Johnson's students at Truman State University.

Jerry and Paula Sabloff were colleagues of Binford at the University of New Mexico.  Through their friendship, and in recognition of Binford's stature and importance in transforming the discipline, Paula Sabloff put together this charming and insightful volume.

It is an easy read, fun from start to finish, and for sale through Amazon for a startling low price.  Treat yourself today.  [JDH]

Senior Capstone Project     The Binford Project: Logic of  a Life’s Work.

2009     Department of Society and Environment, Truman State University, Kirksville,

              Missouri.

A series of interviews with Dr. Lewis Binford, this DVD features an Introduction and 4 segments: On undergraduate and graduate work, On excavating Neanderthal sites in France with Francois Bordes (includes time in Arctic), On further work in small-scale societies after work in the Arctic, On compiling a larger body of research after work in 3 major contexts.

It was produced by seven Truman students [6 Sociology/Anthropology majors + 1 Communications major] as their Senior Capstone project in 2009.  Most of the video is Lew talking – there are some photos layered over his discussion. This is an 80-minute long program, the proceeds of which are being used to support student initiated projects in the Department of Society and Environment.  [AJ]

Meltzer, David J.     Lewis Roberts Binford,1931-2011: A Biographical Memoir.

  2011     National Academy of Science, Washington, DC.

                http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/lewis-r-binford-memoir.pdf

In 2001, Lewis Binford was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a crucial vindication of his lifelong goal of instituting a robust science of anthropological archaeology.  Upon his death, this memoir was written by archaeologist David J. Meltzer to critically examine his professional life and the impact Binford had, and continues to have, among his colleagues and successors. 

Overall, a biographical memoir in praise of a great man, it begins, "Lewis R. Binford was the most influential American archaeologist of the 20th century . . .  "         [JDH]