The Society for American Archaeology, celebrating its 50th anniversary, is known in Scandinavia almost exclusively for its journal. Lack of funds and of common research interests have kept most European archaeologists from crossing the Atlantic for the hectic annual get-togethers. American Antiquity, however, is widely read in northern Europe although the number of actual subscribers is probably quite small. But the attention paid to the journal is a relatively recent phenomenon. Before the sixties only a tiny team of Scandinavian archaeologists, perhaps just a couple—Gutorm Gjessing, the late Norwegian expert on circumpolar cultures, and Carl-Axel Moberg, the Swedish archaeologist with a deep interest in the nature of archaeological inquiry—kept up with American literature and with American Antiquity.