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....
A Lost City Found?
Summer 2015:
By Charles C. Poling
On March 2, 2015, a news story on the National Geographic website announced the discovery of an ancient “lost city” that was once inhabited by a mysterious culture in the...
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...
Unearthing Magic of Slaves and Immigrants
Summer 2015:
By Julian Smith
In the late 17th century, Annapolis enjoyed a thriving economy as the capital of the Maryland colony. An average of at least 300 slaves were brought in every year between 1695...
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...
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...
Grappling With A Great Mystery
Summer 2015:
By David Malakoff
It had seemed like a good idea at the time. In the spring of A.D. 1250, you and your new spouse decided to move away from the hamlet where you were...
Comity In The Caves of Mona Island
SUMMER 2017: By Julian Smith.
When Christopher Columbus visited the Isla de Mona, located halfway between Puerto Rico and Hispaniola, in 1494, he found its indigenous residents fishing and farming, part of a thriving Taíno...
The Bears Ears Controversy
Fall 2016: By Julian Smith.
San Juan County covers almost 8,000 square miles of Utah’s southeast corner. It is the largest and the poorest county in the state, and about half of its 15,000 residents...
Colonial Williamsburg Uncovered
Fall 2018: By Paula Neely.
Peering down into the corner of a dig site in Williamsburg, the eighteenth-century capital of Virginia, archaeologist Mark Kostro watched a field school student scrape away dark gray soil from...