Did The Clovis People Have Neighbors?
2015: By Marcia Hill Gossard.
Loren Davis was standing with a historic photo in his hand looking at the south side of a canyon along the Salmon River in western Idaho. He was trying to...
Colonial Williamsburg Uncovered
Fall 2018: By Paula Neely.
Peering down into the corner of a dig site in Williamsburg, the eighteenth-century capital of Virginia, archaeologist Mark Kostro watched a field school student scrape away dark gray soil from...
The Search For A Legendary Ship
Fall 2016: By Alexandra Witze.
The bottom of Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, is a dim and murky place. Sunlight filtering through the seawater illuminates only five, maybe ten feet of the landscape ahead. But occasionally,...
American Archaeology Magazine Fall 2016 Is Here!
The most recent issue of American Archaeology Magazine, FALL 2016, is now available.
COVER: This is one of the numerous Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings found in the Bears Ears region. Many of these archaeological...
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...
Searching for de Soto
Fall 2014 Searching for de Soto By Kristin Ohlson: The Atlanta high school girl was in the middle of a solitary stint at the sifting screen, while archaeologist Dennis Blanton and the rest of...
The POINT-6 Emergency Preservation Program Begins
The Conservancy is excited to announce the launch of POINT-6, the sixth phase of an emergency acquisition project intended to purchase significant sites in immediate danger of destruction. The cultural remains of America’s prehistoric...
American Archaeology Magazine Summer 2017 is Here!
The most recent issue of American Archaeology Magazine, SUMMER 2017, is now available!
COVER: In 1929, Charles and Anne Lindbergh photographed Pueblo del Arroyo, a great house in Chaco Canyon.
Credit: Lindbergh Collection, MIAC/Lab...
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...