Selected Archaeology Resources

Databases
(*licensed to Rhodes College)

*360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

*America: History and Life
Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals.

Archaeology Data Service Library
The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology.

*ARTStor
ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library′s initial content will include approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. Instructional Guides & Handouts.

*ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
Combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA′s online full text collection of major religion and theology journals.

*Early Encounters in North America
Contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material so that it can be used in new ways. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700.

*Historical Abstracts
Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all. Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database, making this a historical periodical database unmatched in breadth.

*North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
The North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics (NADAG) is a database and website that aims to promote use, education, communication, and a knowledge base of the practice of archaeological geophysics in North America.

NADB - National Archaeological Database
The National Archeological Database, Reports module, is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation.

Paleoindian Database of the Americas (UTK)
The information posted on this web site replaces and represents a marked expansion of our earlier North American Paleoindian Projectile Point Database (Anderson 1990; Anderson and Faught 1998, 2000; Faught et al. 1994). That database provided summary data on the occurrence of Paleoindian projectile points by state and county within the United States. On this web site we will be posting a much wider range of information on the early occupants from all across the Americas. The data to be posted will include drawings, photographs, and attribute and distributional data for specific kinds of artifacts, as well as radiocarbon dates, references, and web links.

*Social Sciences Fulltext
An in-demand resource for a wide variety of users from students to social workers, Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

*Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

*Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition
Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Includes these Wilson full text indexes: Education, General Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Legal, Applied Science & Technology, Art, Biological & Agricultural, Business & Readers Guide.

Online Journals
(*licensed to Rhodes College)

• *JSTOR Online Archaeology Journals
• *SerialsSolutions List of Online History & Archaeology Journals
• The Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
  The Anthropological Index Online is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (formerly Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world.
• Archaeology
• Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry
  ...focuses in the Mediterranean region and on matters referred to interactions of Mediterranean with neighboring areas, but presents an international forum of research, innovations, discoveries, applications and meetings, concerning the modern approaches to the study of human past.
• Radiocarbon: An International Journal of  Cosmogenic Isotopes
  Radiocarbon is the main international journal of record for research articles and date lists relevant to 14C and other radioisotopes and techniques used in archaeological, geophysical, oceanographic, and related dating. It is published 3 times a year. We also publish conference proceedings and monographs on topics related to our fields of interest.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.
• Open Science Directory
  About 13000 scientific journals are now available in the ′Open Science Directory′. When all the special program journals will be included, the Open Science Directory will contain more than 20000 titles.

Online Reference Sources
(*licensed to Rhodes College)

• *The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
• *The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
• *Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology
• *Dictionary of the Social Sciences
• *Dictionary of Anthropology
• *Encyclopedia Judaica
  Features more than 21,000 entries on Jewish life, culture, history, and religion, written by Israeli, American and European subject specialists.
• *The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
• *Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt
• *Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
• *The Oxford Companion to the Earth
• *A Dictionary of African Mythology
• *A Dictionary of Asian Mythology
• *A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
• *A Dictionary of English Folklore
• *The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• * Dictionary of Superstitions
• *A Dictionary of World Mythology
• Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries [Print: REF CC100 .E54 2001]
• Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology [Print: REF CC165 .C3 1980]
• *Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing  (UC Berkeley)

Websites

• Ancient Americas (Field Museum Exhibit)
• Ancient Architects of the Mississippi (NPS)
• Ancient Mexico.com
• Ancient Indus Civilization
• Ancient World Mapping Center (UNC)
• Anthropology/Archaeology Resources on the Internet
• Archaeology Channel
  Video and audio streaming of archaeological media presentations.
• Archaeology Links (CyberPursuits)
• Archaeologic.com (U of New Brunswick)
• Archaeology Links (about.com)
• Archaeology Resources (DMOZ)
• Archaeological Research Resources 
• Archaeological Research Guide for Europe
  The ARGE database contains links to evaluated Internet resources (mainly web pages, but also other resources such as discussion lists) concerning European archaeology.
• ArchNet - WWW Virtual Library of Archaeology (Arizona State University)
  ArchNet is hosted and maintained by the staff at the Archaeological Research Institute at Arizona State University
• Artefacts Canada
  Containing millions of collection records and close to 580 000 images from hundreds of museums across the country, this resource is used by national and international heritage professionals to research and discover the fascinating world of Canadian cultural and natural collections. Records with images are made more publicly accessible in the Virtual Museum of Canada’s Image Gallery.
• Biblical Archaeology Society
• Civil War Archaeology (NPS)
• Dating Techniques   (Minnesota State University, Mankato)
• Dead Sea Scrolls Project (Oriental Institute, U of Chicago)
• Dead Sea Scrolls: the Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship (Library of Congress)
  The Library′s exhibition describes the historical context of the scrolls and the Qumran community from whence they may have originated; it also relates the story of their discovery 2,000 years later
• Digital Roman Forum
  From 1997 to 2003 the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory (CVR Lab) created a digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late antiquity.
• ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives
  An electronic publishing project for the study of the history and culture of the Ancient Near East. Contains ABZU, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world..
• Egyptology Resources (Newton Institute, Cambridge)
• Geodata.gov
  Your One Stop for Finding and Using Geographic Data
• Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC)
• Jerusalem Archaeological Park
  The Jerusalem Archaeological Park, Israel’s most important antiquity site, reaches the Temple Mount on the north, the slope of the Mount of Olives and the Kidron Valley on the east, and the Valley of Hinnom on the west and the south.
• Maya Ruins.com
  Photograph tour of ruins in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras
• Mesoweb
  Mesoweb is devoted to the ancient cultures of Mexico and adjacent Central America, including the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Teotihuacan, Toltec, Aztec and Maya (reserving the word Mayan for the language and the word Maya for the people and their culture).
• Peopling North American: Population Movements and Migration (U Calgary)
  An historical overview of migratory movements, this tutorial focuses on diasporas to and within Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
• Society for Historical Archaeology
  Historical archaeology is the study of the material remains of past societies that also left behind some other form of historical evidence. This field of research embraces the interests of a diverse group of scholars representing the disciplines of anthropology, history, geography, and folklore
• Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842 (U of Georgia, Galileo)
  Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, and the LaFayette-Walker County Library. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.
• Theban Mapping Project
  Since its inception in 1978, the Theban Mapping Project (TMP, now based at the American University in Cairo) has been working to prepare a comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes.
• Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation
  Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation is ambitious in its scope but simple in its aims: to make the complete records of Howard Carter′s excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available on these web pages. It
• Virtual Museum of Nautical Archaeology (Texas A&M)
• WWW Virtual Library - American Indians
  Index of Native American Archaeology & Anthropology Resources on the Internet