Spring 2015 Additional Images Online Gallery
Explore our newest online feature our additional Images gallery! Each Issue of American Archaeology Magazine we get way too many wonderful images to fit into the magazine. Now we have a chance to share...
Cultivation, Cooperation, and Conflict | American Archaeology
Researchers are studying the connections between early plant domestication and changing patterns of settlement and conflict during the Middle Holocene.
By Julian Smith
This is an article excerpt from the Summer 2020 edition of American Archaeology...
Artifacts For Sale
Spring 2016: By Julian Smith.
When Shelby Anderson of Portland State University arrived at Port Clarence in western Alaska to conduct an archaeological survey in 2013, she was astonished at what she found. The narrow...
Life On The Northern Frontier
2015: By Wayne Curtis.
A few yards from an immaculately-maintained late-18th-century Georgian house in southern Maine is an equally immaculate hole in the ground, its edges as precise as if cut with a miter saw....
Summer Travel: A Tour Of Civil War Battlefields
SUMMER 2017: By Paula Neely.
By 1860, after decades of discord between northern and southern states over economic policies, state’s rights, and the role of slavery, the United States had become a divided nation. Southern...
Here Come The Drones
Fall 2015: By David Malakoff.
When Mike Searcy is in the field, he likes to get a bird’s-eye picture of his study area. “That means I’m teetering on top of a ladder or climbing up...
Winter 2015 is Here!
The most recent issue of American Archaeology Magazine, WINTER 2015 , is now available.
COVER: Researchers stabilize a drill in preparation of coring an ice patch. They core the patches to see their internal structures,...
Examining The Salado Phenomenon | American Archaeology
By Tamara Jager Stewart
For decades archaeologists have sought to understand what they refer to as the Salado Phenomenon, which occurred between roughly A.D. 1275 and 1450 in what is now south-central Arizona and southwestern...
Summer 2014
The cover of past issue of American Archaeology Magazine, Summer 2014
Cover Photo: A Native American holds an elaborate pipe in this mid-19th century illustration by the noted artist Karl Bodmer.
Photo Credit: Rare Books Division, The New...
SPRING 2020 | Aviation Archaeology Takes Flight
The following is an article excerpt from the Spring 2020 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine. Become a member to subscribe and read the full story!
By David Malakoff
“It was the most horrible thing I have...