Shedding Light on the Pleistocene Epoch: Hoyo Negro project adds new layers of information...
By Paula Neely
In 2007, in a jungle north of the city and Maya Center of Tulum in Quintana Roo, Mexico, a team of cave divers entered a sinkhole, or cenote, and began exploring a...
Engineered by Ancestors: New research shows extensive networks of terraces, drainage ditches, and ceremonial...
By David Malakoff
It helps to carry a machete — and an umbrella — if you are doing archaeology in Sāmoa. The South Pacific archipelago, which includes six islands that comprise the United States territory...
Protecting a Ritual Landscape: Avi Kwa Ame National Monument preserves half a million acres
By Tamara Jager Stewart
Standing in the shadow of the jagged Avi Kwa Ame peaks looking west, the vast, complex desert landscape holds deep canyons with natural springs and petroglyphs, rare grassland habitats, ancient Joshua...
Modern technology helps preserve the ancient past with 3D modeling, printing
By Julian Smith
In May, a film production company and deep-sea mapping company announced that they had completed the first full-scale scan of the wreck of the Titanic. The 3D digital model of the wreck...
Project Archaeology program helps students discover the past and shape the future
By Elizabeth Lunday
Leah Guenther had a problem. After several years teaching English in a Chicago high school, she took a new position in 2019 teaching American history and civics to seventh and eighth graders....
McGarity-Etheridge
McGarity-Etheridge is a 26-square-mile area of soapstone outcroppings, known to archaeologists as Soapstone Ridge, in Atlanta, Georgia. The site, which dates to the Late Archaic Period between 3000 B.C. and 1000 B.C., will be...
Beneath the Jungle: Large LiDAR Survey in Maya Lowlands Unveils a Sophisticated Kingdom
By Michael Bawaya
In 2009, archaeologists Arlen and Diane Chase led a LiDAR study of Caracol, a large, 2,600-year-old Maya city in Belize. LiDAR (an acronym for Light Detection and Ranging) is a remote-sensing technology...
Tequesta’s Miami: Discovery of Ancient Occupation Prompts Activists, Preservationists to Push City to Do...
By David Malakoff
On a warm evening earlier this year, Miami’s trendy Brickell neighborhood was humming. Couples young and old strolled down streets lined with chic cafés and glittering condo towers. Sleek motor yachts cruised...
The Archaeology of Place-Making: The Kawartha Lakes Project Explores How Burial Sites Helped Native...
By Wayne Curtis
In September 2009, contractors were digging a foundation for a new building at a nonprofit summer camp on a 104-acre island in Pigeon Lake in south-central Ontario. Human remains were uncovered and,...
Archaeology as Anthropology: Stuart Struever’s Visionary Ideas Contributed to the Movement of ‘New Archaeology’...
By Tracy Loe
As a 9-year-old boy in 1940 Illinois, Struever Struever found a projectile point on a neighbor’s farm. He then found artifacts on his own family’s land. These new discoveries in hand, he...