Archaeology
Airborne Archaeology
The view from above can yield insights on the ground
December 2005 |
By Andrew Curry
Dive Bomber
Underwater archaeologists ready a crashed B-29 for visits by scuba-wearing tourists at the bottom of Lake Mead.
October 2005 |
By Julian Smith
The Ambush That Changed History
An amateur archaeologist discovers the field where wily Germanic warriors halted the spread of the Roman Empire
September 2005 |
By Fergus M. Bordewich
Mystery Man of Stonehenge
Who was he and where did he come from? And what was his role in the making of the great monument? The discovery of a 4,300-year-old skeleton surrounded by intriguing artifacts has archaeologists abuzz
August 2005 |
By Richard Stone
Glyph Dweller
Archaeologist Alanah Woody's infectious enthusiasm for Nevada's rock art knows no bounds
June 2005 |
By Christopher Hall
The Seeds of Civilization
Why did humans first turn from nomadic wandering to villages and togetherness? The answer may lie in a 9,500-year-old settlement in central Turkey
May 2005 |
By Michael Balter
Digging for Jefferson's Lost Courthouse
Archaeologists in Virginia found the footprint of a red brick building lost in the mid-19th century
October 2004 |
By Clay Risen
Towering Mysteries
Who built them and why? An amateur archaeologist tries to get to the bottom of some astonishing structures in Tibet and Sichuan Province, China
April 2004 |
By Richard Stone
Maine's Lost Colony
Archeologists uncover an early American settlement that history forgot
February 2004 |
By Myron Beckenstein
Saving Iraq's Treasures
As archaeologists worldwide help recover looted artifacts, they worry for the safety of the great sites of early civilization.
June 2003 |
By Andrew Lawler
Rethinking Neanderthals
Research suggests the so-called brutes fashioned tools, buried their dead, maybe cared for the sick and even conversed. But why, if they were so smart, did they disappear?
June 2003 |
By Joe Alper
Testimony from the Iceman
The 5,000-plus-year-old Neolithic man discovered a decade ago is telling scientists how he lived and died
February 2003 |
By Bob Cullen
Lasting Impressions
Scientists cast tall shadows but find themselves hard pressed to explain the blues to Mongolians
November 2002 |
By Donovan Webster
First City in the New World?
Peru's Caral suggests civilization emerged in the Americas 1,000 years earlier than experts believed
August 2002 |
By Smithsonian magazine
Downtown Digs
One step ahead of bulldozers, Urban archaeologists pull historic treasures from America's cityscapes
May 2002 |
By Grace Lichtenstein
The Secrets of Easter Island
The more we learn about the remote island from archaeologists and researchers, the more intriguing it becomes
March 2002 |
By Paul Trachtman
A Fury from Hell—or Was He?
As underwater archaeologists pull artifacts from what may be the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship, historians raise new questions about the legendary pirate
February 2000 |
By Constance Bond
Hot-Rock Cooking Party
For archaeologists, the proof is in the pudding or rather, in the agave, cactus and other goodies
November 1997 |
By Jake Page
Around the Mall & Beyond
At the site of a new Smithsonian museum, a team of archaeologists dug up traces of a 19th-century neighborhood; bottles, chinaware and even a doll will help us learn more about how the people lived
February 1995 |
By Michael Kernan
