Shedding Light on the Pleistocene Epoch: Hoyo Negro project adds new layers of information...
By Paula Neely
In 2007, in a jungle north of the city and Maya Center of Tulum in Quintana Roo, Mexico, a team of cave divers entered a sinkhole, or cenote, and began exploring a...
Engineered by Ancestors: New research shows extensive networks of terraces, drainage ditches, and ceremonial...
By David Malakoff
It helps to carry a machete — and an umbrella — if you are doing archaeology in Sāmoa. The South Pacific archipelago, which includes six islands that comprise the United States territory...
Protecting a Ritual Landscape: Avi Kwa Ame National Monument preserves half a million acres
By Tamara Jager Stewart
Standing in the shadow of the jagged Avi Kwa Ame peaks looking west, the vast, complex desert landscape holds deep canyons with natural springs and petroglyphs, rare grassland habitats, ancient Joshua...
Modern technology helps preserve the ancient past with 3D modeling, printing
By Julian Smith
In May, a film production company and deep-sea mapping company announced that they had completed the first full-scale scan of the wreck of the Titanic. The 3D digital model of the wreck...
Project Archaeology program helps students discover the past and shape the future
By Elizabeth Lunday
Leah Guenther had a problem. After several years teaching English in a Chicago high school, she took a new position in 2019 teaching American history and civics to seventh and eighth graders....
Podcasting is a Digital Outreach, Educational Tool for Archaeologists
By Gayle Keck
For millennia, tales have been told around the fire – a tradition archaeologists likely reflect on as they sift through ancient fire pits. But these days, the new campfires are our smartphones,...
Read Highlights from the Fall 2022 edition of American Archaeology Magazine
Cover Photo from the article "Understanding The Lead Rush" - Syracuse University student wearing mosquito netting to ward off gnats takes notes. | Credit: Joshua Ives.
The latest edition of American Archaeology Magazine will be...
Counterintuiitive Preservation
By David Malakoff
Archaeologists routinely raise shipwrecks from their watery graves. But on a sparkling spring day in Alexandria, Virginia, a team that included two scuba divers was working in reverse: carefully sinking pieces of...
Meadowcroft Revisited
By Julian Smith
In June of this year, James Adovasio of the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, returned to a site he has been investigating since the end of the Vietnam War. The Meadowcroft...
A Pioneering Researcher
By Tamara Jager Stewart
The late Wendy Ashmore was one of the leading theoreticians in Maya archaeological research. She was born in Los Angles in 1948, and she earned her B.A. in anthropology in 1969...