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By Elizabeth Lunday
More than a thousand years ago, women living...
American Archaeology Magazine Fall 2016 Is Here!
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COVER: This is one of the numerous Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings found in the Bears Ears region. Many of these archaeological...
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Sneak Peak Ahead Field Blog for Fall 2015
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Summer Travel: 5 Hidden National Park Gems
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This year is the National Park Service’s centennial, and in honor of that momentous occasion we’ve selected 5 amazing National Park Gems that feature the vestiges of fascinating and often...
Vive La Belle: Reconstructing La Salle’s Ship
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In the spring of 1684, a team labored to assemble a ship in the port town of Rochefort in southwest France. They fastened timbers using iron bolts and...
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COVER: Shumla researchers Jerod Roberts (on ladder) and Karen Steelman use a portable x-ray fluorescence instrument to identify the elemental composition...
The Road To Prehistory
Winter 2015: By Elizabeth Lunday.
U.S. Highway 175 emerges from the sprawl of Dallas, shaking off the suburbs as it stretches southeast. Just beyond the city of Athens, this four-lane highway narrows to two lanes....
The Mystery Of The Fort Ancient Transformation
Summer 2016: By Linda Vaccariello.
On a bright and breezy spring day, when the majority of his University of Kentucky colleagues were focused on the finale of the college basketball season, archaeologist David Pollack was...
Discovering The Archaeology Of Tattooing
Spring 2018: By Gayle Keck.
In old Western movies, Indians were invariably depicted galloping into the scene whooping and streaked with war paint. At least one aspect of that cliché is true. Native Americans did...
Finding The Pilgrims
Fall 2017: By Rachael Moeller Gorman.
On a sticky day last June, archaeologist David Landon peered into a rectangular, three-foot-deep excavation unit on the edge of an old cemetery. “That layer they’re coming down on,...