Putting The Petroglyphs In Context
Fall 2015: Putting The Petroglyphs In Context, By Tamara Stewart
Escaping from the blistering desert heat, we are drawn down the worn stone steps into Chevelon Canyon, toward the cool oasis of flowing water and...
An Echo of the Miami Circle
Fall 2014 An Echo of the Miami Circle By Michael Bawaya
Over the course of approximately two years a vacant lot in the heart of downtown Miami will be transformed into METsquare, an atrium-style complex. METsquare,...
A Meeting Of Science And Culture: Ancient Basketry
Fall 2018: By Julian Smith
Suquamish elder and master basketmaker Ed Carriere was thrilled when he first saw the fragments of ancient cedar baskets in the Biderbost Collection at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum...
Chaco’s Upper Class
2015: By Charles C. Poling.
Chaco Canyon has puzzled and intrigued archaeologists for almost 120 years. Despite the abundance of archaeological remains, scholars know relatively little about the people who lived there, including when they...
An Instrument For The Ages
Fall 2017: By Gayle Keck.
You might have had one when you were a kid. You might have encountered a magical one while playing a popular video game. You might even have an app on...
Charles Lindbergh’s Little-Known Passion
SUMMER 2017: By Tamara Jager Stewart.
In 1927 an obscure U.S. Air Mail pilot named Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris, thereby achieving word-wide fame. Virtually everyone...
Spring 2015 is Here
The recent issue of American Archaeology Magazine, Spring 2015 , is now available.
COVER: Peter Fix (foreground) and Jim Bruseth reassemble the hull timbers of La Belle, the ship of the French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sier...
FALL 2019 | The Omnipresence Of Telepresence
The following is an article excerpt from the Fall 2019 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine. Become a member to subscribe and read the full story!
By David Malakoff
One evening this past May, maritime archaeologist Michael...
Celebrating A Centennial
Spring 2016: By Margaret Shakespeare
By the turn of the 20th century the secret was out. Maverick rancher and outdoorsman Theodore Roosevelt knew it. The Swedish archaeologist Gustaf N. A. Nordenskiöld knew it. Adventurers, photographers,...
A Hopewell Woodhenge
Winter 2014 A Hopewell Woodhenge By Dave Ghose
Two excavators dug a long, narrow trench in the flat, vacant landscape. They were part of a small crew that worked quietly in an unremarkable patch of the...