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The Archaeology of Place-Making: The Kawartha Lakes Project Explores How Burial Sites Helped Native...

By Wayne Curtis In September 2009, contractors were digging a foundation for a new building at a nonprofit summer camp on a 104-acre island in...
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Tequesta’s Miami: Discovery of Ancient Occupation Prompts Activists, Preservationists to Push City to Do...

By David Malakoff On a warm evening earlier this year, Miami’s trendy Brickell neighborhood was humming. Couples young and old strolled down streets lined with...

Beneath the Jungle: Large LiDAR Survey in Maya Lowlands Unveils a Sophisticated Kingdom

By Michael Bawaya In 2009, archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase led a LiDAR study of Caracol, a large, 2,600-year-old Maya city in Belize. LiDAR (an...
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Summer Travel: Tour the Ancestral Pueblo Heartland of Southwest Colorado

By Tamara Jager Stewart From ancestral Native American cliff dwellings, Pueblo settlements, petroglyphs, and agricultural sites to historic structures and architecture related to early 20th...

SUMMER 2023 | Vol. 27 No. 2

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