Dean R. Snow is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. His archaeological research interests are in Iroquoian and Algonquian ...

Prologue: historicizing the origins of American archaeology -- American antiquities: a grand theme for speculation -- Rediscovering the mounds: scientific enquiry and the westward movement -- ...

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America is a vast land home to many different peoples, places, and cultures. For thousands of years, people and creatures ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.The American Journal of Archaeology (AJA) is published by the Archaeological Institute of America and in association with ...

Visitors gather at the Forbush Creek archaeological site in Yadkin County, N.C., 1957. Human remains collected from the site remain in the collection at UNC-CH's Research Laboratories of Archeology, ...

An after-hours event at the Museum of the American Revolution next month will explore the thousands of 18th century ceramics, pottery, glassware and animal bone fragments found under the museum site. ...

Brad Hettler was on his first-ever archaeology dig when he found himself holding a 250-year-old musket ball that had likely killed or injured an American soldier fighting in the woods of Saratoga, New ...

The study of paleoparasitology in South American archaeological sites offers a unique lens through which to reconstruct the interactions between ancient human and animal populations and the parasites ...

Mike Wolfe, star of the hit History Channel series American Pickers, has reopened his beloved Nashville antique store, Antique Archaeology, following a temporary closure caused by a gas leak. The ...