Editing Bruce Trigger (section)

{{short description|Canadian archaeologist (1937–2001)}}
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| name               = Bruce G. Trigger
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| birth_date         = {{birth date|1937|6|18}}
| birth_place        = [[Preston, Ontario|Preston]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2006|12|1|1937|6|18}}<ref name="Necrology: A reflection on Bruce an">{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Pamela Jane |title=Necrology: A reflection on Bruce and Barbara Trigger based on oral-historical interviews and personal correspondence. |journal=Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |date=2007 |volume=17 |issue=1 |page=52 |doi=10.5334/bha.17116|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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| occupation         = [[archaeologist]] and [[ethnohistorian]]
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| spouse             = Barbara Welch <ref name="Necrology: A reflection on Bruce an">{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Pamela Jane |title=Necrology: A reflection on Bruce and Barbara Trigger based on oral-historical interviews and personal correspondence. |journal=Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |date=2007 |volume=17 |issue=1 |page=52 |doi=10.5334/bha.17116|doi-access=free }}</ref>
| children           = Isabel Trigger and Rosalyn Trigger
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| discipline         = [[Archaeology]] <br /> [[Anthropology]] <br /> [[Ethnohistory]]
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| education          = St. Mary’s Collegiate Institute<br />Stratford Collegiate Institute
| alma_mater         = [[University of Toronto]] {{small|(B.A., 1959)}} [[Yale University]] {{small|(Ph.D., 1964)}}
| thesis_title       = History and Settlement of Lower Nubia<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal |last1=Klejn |first1=Leo S. |title=Bruce Trigger in World Archaeology |journal=Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |date=2008 |volume=18 |issue=2 |page=7 |doi=10.5334/bha.18202|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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| thesis_year        = 1964
| doctoral_advisor   = [[William Kelly Simpson]] and [[Michael D. Coe]]
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| workplaces         = [[Northwestern University]] <br /> [[McGill University]]
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| awards             = <!--Notable national level awards only--> [[Innis-Gérin Medal]], [[Cornplanter Medal]], Officer of the [[National Order of Quebec]], Officer of the [[Order of Canada]]
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'''Bruce Graham Trigger''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|OQ|FRSC}} (June 18, 1937 – December 1, 2006) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[archaeology|archaeologist]], [[Anthropology|anthropologist]], and [[ethnohistory|ethnohistorian]]. He was appointed the James McGill Professor at McGill University in 2001.<ref name="patterson_2014">{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Patterson |first1=Thomas |title=Trigger, Bruce Graham |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=C. |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology |date=2014 |publisher=Springer Verlag |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4419-0465-2 |page=75 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1298}}</ref>