Searching For The Origins Of Pueblo Culture
Spring 2015: Searching For The Origins Of Pueblo Culture By Tamara Stewart.
Dirt flies as archaeologists Caitlin Sommer and Steve Copeland, along with many volunteers, search for the hearth in the Dillard site’s great kiva. Since...
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...
Book Review- Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
By Marilyn Johnson
(Harper Collins, 2014; 288 pgs., illus., $26 cloth, $10 ebook; www.harpercollins.com)
Author Marilyn Johnson assumes that everyone in the sandbox wanted to grow...
Book Review- The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco
The Archaeology of Smoking and Tobacco
By Georgia L. Fox
(University Press of Florida, 2015; 192 pgs., illus., $70 cloth; www.upf.com)
Nothing in the material culture of the Americas is more ubiquitous than tobacco. From the times...
An Echo of the Miami Circle
Fall 2014 An Echo of the Miami Circle By Michael Bawaya
Over the course of approximately two years a vacant lot in the heart of downtown Miami will be transformed into METsquare, an atrium-style complex. METsquare,...
Is it Really Pre-Clovis?
Fall 2014 Is It Really Pre-Clovis? By Julian Smith
The first prehistoric artifacts at the Meadowcroft Rockshelter site in southwestern Pennsylvania turned up in a groundhog burrow in 1955. When Jim Adovasio began his decades-long investigation...
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...
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...
Rock Art Revelations?
Summer 2014: When Larry Loendorf decided to hunt for ancient rock art on the southern Great Plains, he went about it methodically. Loendorf, an archaeologist with Sacred Sites Research in Albuquerque, New Mexico, made...