Center for American Archeology

06/26/2026

Geophysics Field School 2026. Students learned magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar while collecting data at the Alton Cemetery, Calhoun County Poor Farm, and Calhoun County Poor Farm Cemetery.

06/22/2026

CAA High School Field School Week 1

09/30/2025

You know what today is? It is another meet our team Monday- and no, not everyone who works here are four-legged
Meet angel, our site monitor, lunch meat eater, and task manager extraordinaire (sorry angel- I will get a better picture of you)

09/29/2025

Yesterday, we finished week 1 of the fall crm field school! Here are some teaching and learning moments! Looking forward to returning to the field tomorrow

09/22/2025

✨ Welcome to Meet the Member Monday! ✨ Each week you’ll get to ‘meet’ a member of the Center for American Archeology community and learn a little more about the people who make our work possible. Stay tuned to hear their stories!
Today, we introduce you to Lincoln, our task police, pet enforcer and rat trapper
Here’s some facts about him
Favorite coworker: his mom
Least favorite coworker: no one (with the exception when one doesn’t pet him)
Favorite history fact: dogs were the first domesticated animal

09/17/2025

Happy Birthday to us! 🎂
Today we celebrate 72 years of archaeology, research, and sharing history with you.

We’re excited to kick off another year filled with new ways to connect—including Meet the Staff Mondays, What’s This Wednesdays, and Flashback Fridays.

Thank you for being part of our journey—here’s to the next chapter!

10/15/2024

We're working toward reopening the museum in 2025! You can read about our efforts to protect the museum from future floods and how you can help on our website.

The CAA Museum has been closed since 2019 following the historic flood of that year and the 2020 Covid shutdown. We are working to reopen the museum for 2025, but we need your help! The CAA’s…