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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...