From Atlatls To Arrows
Spring 2015: From Atlatls To Arrows, By Mike Toner.
For thousands of years, North America’s ancient people relied on an ingenious spear-throwing device called the atlatl to hunt game and wage war. Then they discovered, and...
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:Â 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...
Winter 2014
The recent issue of American Archaeology Magazine, Winter 2014, is now available.
COVER: Scientists who have studied the 8,500-year-old skeleton
known as Kennewick Man have come to a number of conclusions
about him. This sculpted bust, for...
The Story of Kennewick Man
Winter 2014: The Story of Kennewick Man By David Malakoff
On a warm July day in 1996, Will Thomas and Dave Deacy, two college kids, were watching some speedboat races on the Columbia River near Kennewick,...
Ancient Urbanites
Winter 2014: Ancient Urbanites By Lizzie Wade
 It was the rainy season in central Mexico and David Carballo was sweeping the stone floor, trying to clear away the dust before it had a chance to turn...
A Hopewell Woodhenge
Winter 2014 A Hopewell Woodhenge By Dave Ghose
Two excavators dug a long, narrow trench in the flat, vacant landscape. They were part of a small crew that worked quietly in an unremarkable patch of the...
