Biografia Trigger si laurea all'università di Toronto in antropologia e successivamente si trasferisce a Yale dove ottiene un dottorato di ricerca. Le sue ricerche lo hanno portato in Sudan e in Egitto, in particolare nella regione della Nubia.
È stato docente di archeologia ed etnostoria alla Università McGill di Montréal, in Canada.
Opere History and Settlement in Lower Nubia, New Haven, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 1965. The Late Nubian Settlement at Arminna West, New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1965. Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. The Huron: Farmers of the North, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. The Impact of Europeans on Huronia, Toronto, The Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1969. The Meroitic Funerary Inscriptions from Arminna West, New Haven, Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1970. Con J.F. Pendergast, Cartier's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site, Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972. The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660, Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976. Nubia Under the Pharaohs, Londra, Thames and Hudson, 1976. Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation, Edimburgo, Edinburgh University Press, 1978. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15, Stati Uniti d'America nord-orientali, Smithsonian Institution, 1978. Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation, Edimburgo, Edinburgh University Press, 1978. Gordon Childe: Revolutions in Archaeology, Londra, Thames and Hudson, 1980. In collaborazione con B.J. Kemp, D. O'Connor, e A.B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt: A Social History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983. Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Revisited, Montréal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. A History of Archaeological Thought, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt in Context, New York, Columbia, 1993. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas [vol. I], New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and Contingency, Oxford, Blackwell, 1998. Artifacts and Ideas: Essays in Archaeology, Nuovo Brunswick, Transaction Publishers, 2003. Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. A History of Archaeological Thought. 2nd ed. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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