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The archaeology of the Americas is the study of the archaeology of the Western Hemisphere, including North America (Mesoamerica), Central America, South America and the Caribbean. This includes the study of pre-historic/Pre-Columbian and historic indigenous American peoples, as well as historical archaeology of more recent eras, including the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and European colonization.

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Archaeology of the Americas

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The archaeology of the Americas is the study of the archaeology of the Western Hemisphere, including North America (Mesoamerica), Central America, South...

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Peopling of the Americas

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The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the...

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Archaeology

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Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of...

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American Journal of Archaeology

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The American Journal of Archaeology (AJA), the peer-reviewed journal of the Archaeological Institute of America, has been published since 1897 (continuing...

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Archaeological Institute of America

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The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America's oldest society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology. AIA professionals...

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Society for American Archaeology

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The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is a professional association for the archaeology of the Americas. It was founded in 1934 and its headquarters...

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Genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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The genetic history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is divided into two distinct periods: the initial peopling of the Americas during about 20...

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

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on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas. The museum is caretaker to over 1.2 million objects, some 900 feet (270 m) of documents, 2,000 maps...

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Population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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Population figures for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas prior to European colonization have been difficult to establish. By the end of the 20th century,...

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International Journal of Historical Archaeology

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archaeology of historical sites. According to the definition of Historical archaeology in the Americas it refers to the post-1492 period. Official website v t e...

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Subfields of archaeology

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region of study might include: African archaeology, Archaeology of the Americas, Australian archaeology, European archaeology: focuses on archaeologic study...

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Lithic stage

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In the sequence of cultural stages first proposed for the archaeology of the Americas by Gordon Willey and Philip Phillips in 1958, the Lithic stage was...

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History of archaeology

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Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that...

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European colonization of the Americas

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During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late...

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Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as...

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Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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The Indigenous peoples of the Americas are groups of people native to a specific region that inhabited the Americas before the arrival of European settlers...

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Outline of archaeology

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the Americas Archaeology of China Archaeology of Israel Industrial archaeology Near Eastern archaeology Biblical archaeology Medieval archaeology Historical...

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Archaeology and the Book of Mormon

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in the Americas, the available historical and archaeological facts point to the book being an anachronistic invention of Joseph Smith. Since the book's...

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Timeline of North American prehistory

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ICP-MS in Archaeological Research. UNM Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0826332547. Professor, Dean R. Snow (2015). Archaeology of Native North America. Routledge...

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Processual archaeology

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Processual archaeology (formerly, the New Archaeology) is a form of archaeological theory. It had its beginnings in 1958 with the work of Gordon Willey...

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Historical archaeology

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archaeology are disciplines of historical archaeology. In practice, however – mainly in the Americas – historical archaeology refers to the modern, post-1492 period...

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Prehistoric archaeology

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"Human Origins in the New World? Florentino Ameghino and the Emergence of Prehistoric Archaeology in the Americas (1875–1912)", PaleoAmerica, 1: 68–80, doi:10...

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Biblical archaeology

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Biblical archaeology is an academic school and a subset of Biblical studies and Levantine archaeology. Biblical archaeology studies archaeological sites...

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