Editing Bruce Trigger (section)

==Life==
Born in [[Preston, Ontario]] (now part of [[Cambridge, Ontario|Cambridge]]), Trigger obtained his undergraduate education at the [[University of Toronto]] earning a B.A. in [[anthropology]] in 1959.<ref name="patterson_2014" />
Trigger received a doctorate in [[archaeology]] from [[Yale University]] in 1964.<ref name="patterson_2014" /> He was taught by [[George Murdock|George Peter Murdock]] and [[Irving Rouse|Benjamin Irving Rouse]].<ref name="Bruce Trigger in World Archaeology">{{cite journal |last1=Klejn |first1=Leo |title=Bruce Trigger in World Archaeology |journal=Bulletin of the History of Archaeology |date=2008 |volume=18 |issue=2 |page=6 |doi=10.5334/bha.18202|doi-access=free }}</ref> He was co-supervised by [[William Kelly Simpson]] and [[Michael D. Coe]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=Jackie S. |title=Bruce Graham Trigger (1937-2006) |journal=Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. |date=2007 |volume=Heft 18 |page=219 |url=https://www.sag-online.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Phillips2007_BruceGrahamTrigger1937-2006_MittSAG18.pdf}}</ref> He became friends with [[Kwang-chih Chang|K. C. Chang]], a Chinese archaeologist, who joined the department during his final year of his PhD at [[Yale University|Yale]].<ref name="Bruce Trigger in World Archaeology"/> His doctoral work was funded by a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Award.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=Jackie S. |title=Bruce Graham Trigger (1937-2006) |journal=Mitteilungen der Sudanarchäologischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin e.V. |date=2007 |volume=Heft 18 |page=219 |url=https://www.sag-online.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Phillips2007_BruceGrahamTrigger1937-2006_MittSAG18.pdf}}</ref> His PhD thesis, entitled "History and Settlement of Lower Nubia," argued that four principle parameters determined the density of Nubia over 4,000 years: the height of floods, agricultural techniques, foreign trade and wars.<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> He spent the following year teaching at [[Northwestern University]]<ref name="patterson_2014" /> and subsequently took a position as assistant professor,<ref name="patterson_2014" /> with the Department of [[Anthropology]] at [[McGill University]] in [[Montreal]], and remained there for the rest of his career.<ref name="patterson_2014" /> He was married to Dr Barbara Welch,<ref>{{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=53 |doi=10.5334/bha.17116|doi-access=free }}</ref> a [[British people|British]] [[geographer]] trained in [[Physical geography|Physical Geography]], who, despite being less-known than her husband, was considered an equally sophisticated thinker.<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>

Pamela Jane Smith writes in her obituary of Bruce Trigger that "It is little known outside Canada that Bruce had a deep and profound influence on the development of archaeology in his homeland and is seen as one of the great Canadian intellectuals along with [[Harold Innis]], [[Northrop Frye]] and [[Marshall McLuhan]]."<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>