SPRING 2020 | Aviation Archaeology Takes Flight
The following is an article excerpt from the Spring 2020 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine. Become a member to subscribe and read the full story!
By David Malakoff
“It was the most horrible thing I have...
Visiting California’s Historic Missions
Summer 2015:
By Gayle Keck
It was 1782, and an earthquake had ripped through Alta California. "In Santa Clara, it broke a bottle of brandy," Father Junípero Serra noted, "which the poor Fathers there were jealously...
The Magnificent Artifacts Of Key Marco
Winter 2018-19: By Tamara Jager Stewart.
Hearing reports of fascinating and incredibly preserved artifacts emerging from the dredged muck on Florida’s southwest coast, Frank Hamilton Cushing with the Bureau of American Ethnology in Washington, D.C....
The Sounds Of The Past | American Archaeology
By Tamara Jager Stewart
This is an article excerpt from the Winter 2020 edition of American Archaeology Magazine. Become a member of The Archaeological Conservancy for your complimentary subscription.
Looking around, I saw that I was...
The Mystery Of Hohokam Ballcourts
Spring 2018: By Alexandra Witze.
From the Olmec to the Maya to the Aztec, ballgames were one of the defining activities of Mesoamerican cultures. Beginning some time before 1200 B.C., competitors kicked and whacked rubber...
Life On The Northern Frontier
2015: By Wayne Curtis.
A few yards from an immaculately-maintained late-18th-century Georgian house in southern Maine is an equally immaculate hole in the ground, its edges as precise as if cut with a miter saw....
Life On The Frontier
Fall 2017: By Linda Vaccariello.
A few miles east of the narrow gap in the Cumberland Mountains where Daniel Boone and his companions blazed a trail into Kentucky, Maureen Meyers is puzzling over another group...
SPRING 2019 PREVIEW | A Glimpse Of The First Americans
The following is an excerpt from the Spring 2019 Issue of American Archaeology Magazine.
By David Malakoff
COVER IMAGE: A researcher works at Trail Creek Cave 2 in Alaska, where DNA was extracted from the tooth of...
Book Review – Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland
Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland
Edited by Vincus P. Steponaitis and C. Margaret Scarry
(University Press of Florida, 2016; 344 pgs., illus., $75 cloth; www.upf.com)
Moundville, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is one of the largest prehistoric mound-builder complexes...
A Meeting Of Science And Culture: Ancient Basketry
Fall 2018: By Julian Smith
Suquamish elder and master basketmaker Ed Carriere was thrilled when he first saw the fragments of ancient cedar baskets in the Biderbost Collection at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum...