From American Archaeology Magazine

By Tamara Jager Stewart It took no more than five minutes of scrambling through angry, needle-sharp undergrowth of dense cat’s claw and trying to dodge an equally angry overstory of mesquite, for me to relate...

By David Malakoff Late last year, the residents of Winlock, a small town in eastern Washington, got some good news: thanks to a $23 million government grant, contractors would soon begin installing 250 miles of...

By Gayle Keck For millennia, tales have been told around the fire – a tradition archaeologists likely reflect on as they sift through ancient fire pits. But these days, the new campfires are our smartphones,...

By Julian Smith The eight-part series Ancient Apocalypse premiered on Netflix in November 2022. Hosted by the British journalist Graham Hancock, the show took viewers to archaeological sites from Mexico to Indonesia using drone footage,...

Cover Photo from the article "The Oldest Human-Made Structures In The Americas?" - Syracuse University student wearing mosquito netting to ward off gnats takes notes. | Credit: Joshua Ives. The latest edition of American Archaeology...

By Elizabeth Lunday On the edge of the Louisiana State University campus sits two eighteen-foot tall, conical earthen mounds constructed by ancient Native Americans. Known as the LSU Campus Mounds,  they are a local landmark...

By Michael Bawaya Jaime Awe had an epiphany. He was scrutinizing a sweat bath he and his crew had uncovered at Xunantunich, a Maya ceremonial center in western Belize, when he realized there were two...

By Wayne Curtis Shortly before dawn on the morning of May 26, 1637, a contingent of seventy-seven English soldiers accompanied by as many as 300 Native American allies quietly advanced upon a palisaded fort of...

By David Malakoff The beer stein had seen better days. The hefty glass mug was missing its top half and part of its sturdy curved handle. Still, it wasn’t hard to imagine the stein brimming...

By Tamara Jager Stewart Severe drought, mega fires, reservoirs evaporating, glaciers melting, sea levels rising, devastating hurricanes—these and other calamities are the consequences of climate change, which the British newspaper The Guardian proclaims is the...