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...
American Archaeology Magazine Fall 2017 is Here!
The most recent issue of American Archaeology Magazine, FALL 2017, is now available!
COVER: This four-hole ocarina depicts an unknown animal. It was found
in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, and is now in the collections of...
A Story Of Salt: Ancient Maya Saltworks
Spring 2017: By Elizabeth Lunday.
Salt is a substance so ordinary and inexpensive today that its ready supply is often taken for granted. Yet salt is essential: humans need salt to live and also crave...
Book Review – Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest
Ancient Ruins and Rock Art of the Southwest: An Archaeological Guide
By David Grant Noble
(Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015; 304 pgs., illus., $20 paper, $10 ebook; www.rowman.com)
David Grant Noble has updated his essential guidebook to archaeological...
Cultivation, Cooperation, and Conflict | American Archaeology
Researchers are studying the connections between early plant domestication and changing patterns of settlement and conflict during the Middle Holocene.Â
By Julian Smith
This is an article excerpt from the Summer 2020 edition of American Archaeology...
The Massacre At Mistick Fort
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...
Digging Detroit
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...
Chaco’s Upper Class
2015: By Charles C. Poling.
Chaco Canyon has puzzled and intrigued archaeologists for almost 120 years. Despite the abundance of archaeological remains, scholars know relatively little about the people who lived there, including when they...
Physical and Spiritual Health
Winter 2018-19: By Mike Toner.
In 1535, an outbreak of scurvy ravaged the crew of French explorer Jacques Cartier’s expedition to the St. Lawrence River. Twenty-five men died before a friendly Iroquois chief summoned tribal...
Exploring Belize’s Deep Past
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...