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 ...

Thousands of years ago massive glaciers covered North America. They scoured the land and created new features that had a profound effect on how people lived and survived in the past. Today, we still ...

In December of 1934 the Society for American Archaeology was officially constituted. In 1935, in an effort to grow the membership, professional archaeologists were asked to propose members who they ...

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

*Originally published on January 13, 2022. An old story about the "Old Stone Age" in North America is now giving way to new evidence — or to be precise, evidence that is much, much older than ...

Indigenous peoples around the world have a deeply contentious relationship with the discipline of archaeology. This is due to colonial notions of perceived European supremacy that position Indigenous ...

Various estimates of when people first arrived in the Americas have been published in recent years, varying from 20,000 to more than 30,000 years ago. In the second half of the 20th century, many ...

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