Abstract
Archaeology today is a very different field for Bruce D. Smith, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (Washington, DC), than it was in 1965, when he took his first college course in the subject. Although he started his career excavating 1,000-year-old sites in Missouri, today Smith uncovers long-curated collections scattered in the massive archived holdings of the Smithsonian and other museums. He has traded in his shovel and trowel for modern tools such as accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) radiocarbon dating, scanning electron microscopy, and ancient DNA analysis.
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