American Archaeology Wins Its Fifth Gene S. Stuart Award
The article “Discovering the Archaeology of Tattooing” by Gayle Keck has won the Gene S. Stuart Award. The award, which is bestowed by the Society For American Archaeology, is given to the author of...
SPRING 2019 PREVIEW | Harvard’s History Lesson
The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2019 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine.
By Elaine K. Howley
COVER IMAGE: The excavators have recovered numerous pipes. This white clay pipe with a partially broken stem dates to...
SPRING 2019 PREVIEW | Righting Wrongs At Effigy Mounds
The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2019 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine.
By Julian Smith
COVER IMAGE: Effigy Mounds’ officials bought so many new pieces of construction equipment that a shed was built to hold...
SPRING 2019 PREVIEW | Disappearing Digital Data
The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2019 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine.
By Alexandra Witze
COVER IMAGE: Archaeologists with Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. collect data from a Paleo-Indian site in Cave Valley, Nevada ...
SPRING 2019 PREVIEW | A Glimpse Of The First Americans
The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2019 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine.
By David Malakoff
COVER IMAGE: A researcher works at Trail Creek Cave 2 in Alaska, where DNA was extracted from the tooth of...
SPRING 2019 PREVIEW | His Life As A Field Archaeologist
The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2019 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine.
By Tamara Jager Stewart
COVER IMAGE: Wendorf poses in front of an excavation trench at a salvage project in New Mexico in...
Dealing with the Funding Crisis
Winter 2018-19: By David Malakoff
In the summer of 1894, archaeologist Ernest Volk of Harvard University was excavating a promising prehistoric site in New Jersey’s Delaware River Valley when he hit an unyielding obstacle: money....
The Other Bonaparte
Winter 2018-19: By Gayle Keck
Napoleon should have listened to his brother. Joseph Bonaparte, the defeated emperor's older sibling, had offered to trade places as the English closed in on them in 1815, hoping their...
Physical and Spiritual Health
Winter 2018-19: By Mike Toner.
In 1535, an outbreak of scurvy ravaged the crew of French explorer Jacques Cartier’s expedition to the St. Lawrence River. Twenty-five men died before a friendly Iroquois chief summoned tribal...
The End of Slavery in New York
Winter 2018: By Dan Ferber.
On an August day in 1810, in a courtroom in Albany, New York, a thirty-seven-year-old mother of three signed a document that changed her life forever. The woman, named Susanah,...