How Were The Americas Colonized?
Winter 16: By David Malakoff.
Two decades ago, when molecular anthropologist Ripan Malhi was a graduate student studying the earliest human inhabitants of North America, he sometimes had to watch his tongue. Malhi and some...
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,...
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...
Dealing with the Funding Crisis
Winter 2018-19: By David Malakoff
In the summer of 1894, archaeologist Ernest Volk of Harvard University was excavating a promising prehistoric site in New Jersey’s Delaware River Valley when he hit an unyielding obstacle: money....
American Archaeology Fall 2018 is Here!
The most recent issue of American Archaeology Magazine, FALL 2018, is now available!
COVER: At the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula lies L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. This 1,000-year-old settlement is the...
Saving An Ancient Library
Winter 2017: By Richard A. Marini.
Having scrambled about the shallow, open-air rock shelter known as the Wiley site in southwest Texas, six archaeologists took inventory of the many iconographic figures painted on the shelter...
On the Trail of Florida’s Indian Heritage
Summer 2014: Amid the theme parks and interstates, beachfront hotels and strip malls, remnants of ancient Florida remain. Native Americans lived in Florida as far back as 12,000 to 15,000 years ago, millennia before...
Life In The Great Dismal Swamp
Spring 2017: By David Malakoff.
“I sometimes ask myself why I didn’t do one of those projects where the dig is right next to the parking lot.” Archaeologist Becca Peixotto wasn’t complaining, but she sounded...
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...
Book Review – Archaeology of the Sacred: Adena Hopewell Astronomy & Landscape Archaeology
Archaeology of the Sacred: Adena-Hopewell Astronomy and Landscape Archaeology
By William F. Romain
(The Ancient Earthworks Project, 2015; 325 pgs., illus., $53 paper; www.amazon.com)
When European-Americans first entered the Ohio River Valley they were amazed by the...