Links to other sites of related interest
General Reference
- Netscape's Internet search engine page.
- Yahoo! UK & Ireland
- Railtrack: Travel Information
- London Transport Home Page
- Ordnance Survey - Gazetteer of Place Names
- UK Street Map
- Another online mapping service
- The British Tourist Authority Web Site
- Infotel Free Hotel Booking and Information Service
- SmoothHound UK Accommodation Directory.
- Yahoo! UK Accommodation
- The Hotel Guide An international hotel guide.
- Electronic Yellow Pages On line business telephone directory for the UK.
- AltaVista: Translations
Translates text between various European languages.
- LISTSERV
Information about email discussion lists that use the Listserv software.
Directories of On-Line Archaeological Resources
- CBA guide to UK archaeology online
- Compiled from a number of sources, including indexes
maintained by Keith Challis from the Trent & Peak Archaeological Trust,
Andrew Millard from the University of Durham Archaeology Department, and
Martijn van Leusen & Sara Champion from the Archaeological Resource Guide
to Europe.
- The British and Irish
Archaeological Bibliography
- For archaeology, historic buildings, martime
and industrial archaeology, environmental history, and the conservation of
material culture - with a geographical focus on the Republic of Ireland and
the United Kingdom.
-
Archaeology in Scotland
- Maintained by the University of Glascow.
- The
Archaeological Resources Guide for Europe.
- Now moved to Gronigen.
- ArchNet
- A very impressively presented and comprehensive directory of
archaeological
resources available on the internet maintained by the University
of Connecticut.
- Archaeology on the Net
- Archaeology on the Net is a new site indexing archaeology resources on
the internet. Currently over 1200 sites are indexed under 33 categories
provided with annotated links.
- COPAC
- UK and Ireland University book catalogs merged and significantly expanded
beginning in 1997.
-
Bibliographies for Archaeological Research
- Maintained by Dr. Kevin E. Smith, Associate Professor of
Anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University, this Web page
collocates over 140 recently compiled bibliographies pertinent to
archaeological research. Bibliographies are categorized into fifteen
sections.
-
Jobs in Archaeology -- archaeologic.com
- Mostly USA based jobs.
Data Standards
- The Archaeology Data Service
- Part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service dedicated
to preserving digital archaeological information. Publishes:
- GIS Guide
to Good Practice
- Provides guidance for individuals and
organisations involved in the creation, maintenance, use and long-term
preservation of GIS-based digital resources. The volume is written for
specialists, students, and those in between.
- The Museums Documentation Association
- Dedicated to supporting cultural information management. Publishes:
- MDA Archaeological Objects Thesaurus
- Published in association with English Heritage and
the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England is available
for browsing on-line.
International Organisations
- ICOM
- The International Council of Museums.
-
International Council on Monuments and Sites
National Organisations
- The Council
for British Archaeology.
- Up to date information for
British Archaeologists about new books, conferences, lectures,
fieldwork opportunities, etc.
- The Royal Commission on the
Historical Monuments of England.
- Information about their work,
publications, the
National Monuments Record
and more.
- Royal Commission
on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
- As above but
for Scotland rather than England.
- The Institute of Field Archaeologists
- The National Trust
- UK Charitable organisation dedicated to preserving buildings and
landscapes of national importance.
Archaeological Units and Societies
- The Archaeological Diving Unit
- Birmingham University Field
Archaeology Unit.
- Information on the work of the unit including
The Wroxeter Hinterlands Project.
- Colchester Archaeological Trust
-
Lancaster University Archaeological Unit.
- Information about
their work including the
North West Wetlands Survey.
- Museum of London Archaeology
Service.
- The
Trent & Peak Archaeological Trust
- Contains amongst other
information
the Anglo-Saxon Resources page.
- The York
Environmental Archaeology Unit.
- The Heritage Trust of
Lincoln
- Describes the heritage activities of the trust as well
as the work of Archaeological Project Services.
- The
Association for Environmental Archaeology.
University Departments of Archaeology
-
University of Bristol, Department of Archaeology.
- York
University Archaeology Department.
-
The University of Southampton Department of Archaeology.
Physical Dating
- The C14 Home Page.
- At the University of Arizona. Publish the Radiocarbon
journal and provide the C14 Listserver.
- The University of
Waikato Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory.
- Provide radiocarbon
dating for archaeologists and researchers. They offer an
online sample submission form, a variety
of dating options for submitters and ongoing research of interest
(calibration research with the Belfast lab).
- The Research
Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art at Oxford
University.
- Provide information about their Radiocarbon dating
service and the OxCal calibtration program.
- The Queen's University
Belfast
- Strong on Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon dating.
Geophysics
-
The British Geophysical Association
-
The Engineering and Industrial Geophysics Group
-
The Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society
- Society of Exploration geophysicists
- Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior Group
- Ground Penetrating Radar by
Gary R. Olhoeft
-
EARTHWORKS - worldwide career and employment opportunities
-
The University of Bradford Department of Archaeological Science.
- See particularly the splendid
Newstead Project Report, with online plots of the
geophysical survey work.
- The National
Geophysical Data Center.
- US government sponsored data
archive with loads of geophysical and palaeoenvironmental
information.
- Surveying Contractors
- Whilst commercial, these sites all offer significant interesting
content rather than being just an advert for the company's
services.
- GSB Prospection
- Oxford Archaeotechnics
- Reynolds Geo-Sciences Ltd
- TerraDat Geophysical Consultants
Archaeological Computing
-
Staffordshire University, Computing Archaeology home page.
Miscellaneous Entries
- Stone Pages - A megalithic guide
- Database of megalithic sites from arount the world.
- The Megalith Map
- Produced by Andy Burnham in association with Aubrey Burl &
assisted by Alastair McIvor.
- The
Prehistoric Web Index
- Gardom's Edge web site
- The site is based around a long term landcsape and excavation project
at Gardom's Edge, near Baslow in the Peak District.
- Computer Reconstructions
- 3D computer reconstructions of various archaeological sites.
- Archaeological predictive modelling
- GIS project from northern Ontario, Canada.
- Doon, County Mayo
- Tour of an inland promontary fort.
- Shapwick On-Line
- 'Live' coverage of this year's excavations at Shapwick
taking place between June 17th and July 21st.
- Internet Archaeology
- On line journal of archaeology run by York University.
-
3-D reconstruction of an ancient egyptian mummy using computer
tomography.
- The recently discovered
prehistoric cave paintings at
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. NB: the text is in French.
- Discover Archaeology Magazine
- Current Archaeology Magazine's
WWW site
- Lehrstuhl für Archaeometallurgie at Freiberg Has English translation of their prospective courses and
research.
- The UBC EOS web site Geophysics at the University of British Columbia
- Archaeology in Luxembourg
- The Time Team WWW
site
- Needs no intrduction really!
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