High in the rugged peaks of the South Caucasus, archaeologists have uncovered the sprawling remnants of a forgotten ...

ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Jayne H. Plank. "John V. Murra's Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures, originally given in 1969, are the only major study of the Andean ...

Across caves, jungles, and deserts, archaeologists are piecing together traces of societies that slipped from written history yet left unmistakable fingerprints in stone, bone, and buried ritual.

Archaeologists have long known that complex societies can rise, flourish and then disappear so completely that only scattered ruins hint at what was lost. Now a new wave of research is sharpening the ...