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Internet Resources for Archaeology
Starting Points | Archives, Databases, and Information Sources | Exhibits | Museums | Societies, Associations, and Other Organizations | University Departments, Programs, and Centers | Mailing Lists and News Groups | Regional Resources | Other Sites of Interest
Starting Points
Anthro.Net
A search engine that “queries a database of over 40,000 reviewed web sites with anthropological content built by the interests of its users.”Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Maintained by the American Anthropological Association.Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Maintained by Bernard-Olivier Clist.Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe (ARGE)
The WWW Virtual Library for European Archaeology. The site features links pointing to current archaeological communication and information resources across Europe.Archaeology (Galaxy)
Galaxy is a “guide to worldwide information and services and is provided by TradeWave Corporation.”Archaeology (Yahoo)
Search by region or by one of nearly thirty subcategories.ArchNet (WWW Virtual Library)
Provides access to archaeological resources available on the Internet; information is categorized by geographic region and subject.[Classical and Mediterranean Archaeology]
Maintained by Sebastian Heath, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan.Guide to Archaeology on the Internet
Maintained by Athena Review.
Jump to top of page.Archives, Databases, and Information Sources
African American Archaeology, History and Cultures
Detailed lists of resources, divided into topical and regional sections. Created and maintained by Christopher C. Fennell, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The African Diaspora Archaeology Network (ADAN)
A Web portal and a focal point for archaeological studies of African diasporas, with news, current research, information and links to other Web resources related to the archaeology and history of the dispersed descendants of African peoples.Ancient Mesoamerican Writing
Part of the GB Online's Mesoamerica site.Anthropology Biography Web
Part of the Emuseum at Minnesota State Unversity, this site offers brief, encyclopedic entries on the lives of 392 significant anthropologists or prominent thinkers in other fields who have influenced the discipline.Anthropology Review Database
A project of the University of Buffalo, this site reviews books, films, audio-visual products, educational multimedia, and computer programs, and Web projects.The Archaeological Data Archive Project (ADAP)
A project of the Center for the Study of Architecture. CSA was established to provide an archival home for computer models of architectural monuments and archaeological sites.Archaeology: An Introduction
An online supplement to Archaeology: An Introduction and created by the textbook's author, Kevin Greene, a professor of archaeology at the University of Newcastle. Use either as a supplement to the original text or as a kind of hypertext online curriculum in introductory anthropology.Archeology for Interpreters
Learn about archaeological methods and how archaeological interpretations are made.AREA: ARchives of European Archaeology
A research network dedicated to the history of archaeology, with particular emphasis on the archives of the discipline, their promotion and preservation. The heart of the site consists of two sections. The first, “a thematic track,” offers “substantive, original research” examining the history of archaeology and drawing on “hitherto unknown or unexploited archival material.” The second section consists of a database of catalog entries for archival materials relevant to the history of archaeology in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden.Beyond the Web: Robotic Tele-Excavation (RTE)
A collaborative project of the Departments of Anthropology and Computer Science at the University of Southern California to develop a WWW server which would allow users to “leave the Web” and interact with the physical (i.e., non-virtual) world.CARD: Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database
A compilation of radiocarbon measurements that indicate the ages of archaeological and vertebrate palaeontological sites in Canada.Çatalhöyük: Excavations of a Neolithic Anatolian Höyük
See also the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Mysteries of Çatalhöyük.Digital Archives from Excavation and Fieldwork: Guide to Good Practice
Produced for the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) of Great Britain, this site offers detailed guidelines for the creation and maintenance of digital archives for archaeological projects.Digital Egypt for Universities
A learning and teaching resource for higher education from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London and The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London.Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site collects electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums, and research facilities.Duke Papyrus Archive
Electronic access to texts about and images of 1,373 papyri from ancient Egypt.eCulturalResources
Offers daily updated cultural resource management, historic preservation, and museum jobs, news, events, and consultant listings.Ethnoarchaeology Bibliography
Dr. Nicholas David, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Calgary, compiled and updated the Ethnoarchaeology Bibliography to promote the historical study of cultural material.Grands Sites Archéologiques
From Tautavel Man to l’Abbaye Saint-German d’Auxerre, explore ten archaeological sites. Most have English versions.Guide to the Collections of the National Anthropological Archives
An important repository of primary source material, covering cultural anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology. The collections include papers of eminent American anthropologists as well as the records of the American Anthropological Association.Highway to the Past: The Archaeology of the Central Artery Project
Archaeology of Boston’s “Big Dig.”History & Culture (United States National Park Service)
Learn more about history and how the National Park Service works to preserve it.INA Virtual Museum of Nautical Archaeology
The Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA ) at Texas A&M University features its underwater archaeological excavations and surveys at this virtual museum. Extensive background information together with over 1,000 images of shipwrecks, artifacts, site plans, and maps allows visitors to immerse themselves in the virtual exploration of underwater sites all over the globe.Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
An online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world designed to support the instruction of the classics, ancient history, archaeology, and related disciplines.The “Looting Question” Bibliography
Provocatively subtitled “Web and Literary Resources on the Archaeological Politics of Private Collecting, Commercial Treasure Hunting, Looting, and ‘Professional’ Archaeology,” this comprehensive online bibliography provides scholars and practitioners with resources related to the “looting question.” The bibliography is organized by format type and focuses on North American materials.The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
The objective of the Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED) is to provide a networked information resource for Classic Mayan epigraphic scholars. The MED Glyph Catalog includes tables of glyph images (“gnumbers”), semantic values (“svalues”), and phonetic values (“pvalues”). In the future, MED plans to migrate the Glyph Catalog into a relational database.Metis: QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
Designed by Bruce Hartzler of the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, Metis is a collection of QuickTime VR movies that allow users to explore the ruins of nineteen ancient Greek archaeological sites, including the Acropolis in Athens and the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina. Most movies are accompanied by site plans, which permit users to map out their virtual expeditions. Several of the movies also include embedded links that connect users to related information provided by the Perseus Project.NADB-Reports (National Archeological Database)
Sponsored by the National Park Service. Bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This “gray literature” represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S.Perseus Project
Maintained by the Classics Dept., Tufts University. Described as “an evolving digital library” of resources for studying the ancient world, it presently includes ancient texts and translations, philological tools, maps, art catalogs, and essays.Portable Antiquities Scheme’s Finds Database [Great Britain]
Records of over 45,000 archaeological objects found by members of the public, from Prehistoric flints to post-medieval buckles.The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean
The textual information and illustrations in this site come from the lecture notes of Jeremy B. Rutter, Chairman of the Classics Department at Dartmouth College.SARC: Stone Age Reference Collection
A guide to the typology, technology, and raw materials of the Stone Age, developed and maintained by the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oslo, Norway.Studies in Archaeology & Ethnography
From the National Park Service, the first five publications are an informal study of repository curation fees, an analysis of archeological permits issued between 1907-1935, an overview of archeological permit data collected for the National Archeological Database, an ethnography of Magnolia Plantation, Louisiana, and a survey of the SHPO Archeological Report Bibliographic Systems.SWA (SouthWestern Archaeology)
The “Type Site” for World Wide Web archaeology as practiced in the American Southwest.TAY: The Archaeological Settlements of Turkey
This ambitious project is the first, and currently only, culture/settlement inventory of an entire country on the Internet. The TAY project was begun in 1993 “to build a chronological inventory of findings about the cultural heritage of Turkey.”Theban Mapping Project
Interactive version of the Atlas of the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. Includes archaeological and image databases as well as other resources for Egyptology.The Tomb of Senneferi (Theban Tomb 99)
This site offers history on the tomb of Senneferi, one of the “Tombs of the Nobles” on the West Bank at Luxor in Egypt, and its inhabitants, photographs and an explanation of its architecture and ornamentation, a “dig diary,” a bibliography of relevant publications, a slide show and virtual reality tour (Quicktime VR) as well as a site index and search engine. The site, maintained by Cambridge archaeologist Nigel Strudwick, is geared to be of use to both the layperson and the professional archaeologist.Virtual Museum of the Ancient Via Flaminia
A virtual reconstruction of one of the roads that led into ancient Rome. You can wander through rebuilt monuments and interact with the city’s political elite.World Lecture Hall
A gateway to online lectures, course outlines, and entire Web-based modules. Click on “Browse by Area” at the top of the screen, then click on “Anthropology / Archeology.”
Exhibits
The Cave of Lascaux
Created by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, this fine Website focuses on the prehistoric artwork of the famous cave at Lascaux. Through graphics and text, the site elucidates the geological and historical timeline of the cave, the story and circumstances of its discovery, the circumstances of its closing in 1963, the construction of a “copy” of the cave (“Lascaux II”), and a virtual visit through the different “rooms.”The Origins and Ancient History of Wine
Presented by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, this online exhibit explores the roots of viniculture and its effects on the ancient civilizations of the Near East and Egypt. The site also explains how archaeological chemistry has improved methods for investigating organic artifacts, providing new means for studying technological and biocultural development of early peoples.
Museums
- Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology (Oxford University)
- The Field Museum
- Museum of Anthropology (University of Michigan)
- Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Simon Fraser University)
- Museum of Classical Archaeology (University of Cambridge)
- Museum of Underwater Archaeology
- The Oriental Institute Museum (University of Chicago)
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
- Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
- Pointe-à-Callière (Musée d’archéologie et d’historie de Montréal)
- The Semitic Museum (Harvard University)
Societies, Associations, and Other Organizations
The British Academy
The national academy for the humanities and social sciences in the United Kingdom.Canadian Archaeological Association
Includes access to CARD: Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database.Council for British Archaeology
Describing itself as “the gateway to British archaeology online,” this site contains the first 22 volumes in the Council’s Research Report series and the first 15 volumes in the Occasional Papers series, in PDF format, as well as Internet Archaeology and British Archaeology.Loveland [Colorado] Archaeological Society
Sponsors of the annual Stone Age Fair.Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes
Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Society for Commercial Archeology
The society is devoted to the artifacts, structures, signs, and symbols of the 20th-century commercial landscape in the United States. The Web site has links to historic highways, building types, historic preservation, and “fellow travellers”—other sites relating to roadside architecture.
University Departments, Programs, and Centers
- Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
- School of Human Evolution & Social Change (formerly Department of Anthropology) Arizona State University
- Anthropology at Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley
- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
- Anthropology at UCSD, University of California, San Diego
- Department of Anthropology (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
- Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
- Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
- Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, CUNY
- Anthropology at UF, University of Florida
- Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
- Anthropology @ UIUC, University of Illinois
- Anthropology Department, Indiana University
- Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
- Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
- Department of Anthropology, New York University
- Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Anthropology: at the University of Pennsylvania
- Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
- Department of Anthropological Sciences, Stanford Unversity
- Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
- Center for the Study of the First Americans (Texas A. & M. University)
- Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia
- Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
- Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Mailing Lists and Newsgroups
Regional Resources
Archaeological Exploration and Historic Preservation in Delaware
Part of the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) Web site.Archaeology at the Read House Gardens
A joint undertaking of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Delaware and the Historical Society of Delaware [now the Delaware Historical Society], owner of the Read property, in New Castle, Delaware. Lu Ann De Cunzo, Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, is Project Director.Delaware Archaeology Month
Includes a Calendar of Events.- Delaware Archaeology Museum
Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery [DAACS]
Learn more about enslaved Africans and their descendants living in the Chesapeake region of Virginia during the colonial and ante-bellum periods. DAACS is a community resource built and maintained in the Department of Archaeology at Monticello, in collaboration with the research institutions and archaeologists working in the region.University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Other Sites of Interest
Anthropology in the News
Links to news stories published on the web by CNN, New York Times, USA Today, MS-NBC, Los Angeles Times, Houston Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, Archaeology, Scientific American, American Scientist, National Geographic, university press releases, and other sources.Anthropology Web Ring
Aims to bring together anthropology oriented sites on the Internet to provide valuable links to all groups of interest.Handbook on Ethical Issues in Anthropology
“A special publication of the American Anthropological Association.”- Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (WEDA)
This page is maintained by David L. Langenberg, Collection Development Department.
Last modified: 04/10/09
