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Archaeology Databases

eHRAF World Cultures

This database contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life.

AnthroSource (American Anthropological Association)

AnthroSource offers access to more than a century of full-text anthropological knowledge across the discipline.

JSTOR - Journal Storage (ITHAKA)

JSTOR includes academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

NDSU subscribes to the following archival journal collections: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Life Sciences collection. For more information on collection subject coverage and title lists, please visit http://about.jstor.org/journals.

Project MUSE (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Provides digital humanities and social sciences content in full text, as well as, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text from 1975-present for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.

America: History & Life

This database indexes literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. Dated back to 1910.

Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)

Representing scholarship from more than 90 countries, the database includes book citations, dissertations and theses, and coverage extends to related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology.

Web of Science: All Databases (Thomson Reuters)

This is a collection of databases providing information about research in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Find information on scholarly literature (such as journal articles, conference proceedings), research data, patents, and taxonomy, classification, and relationships of organisms. Databases included are: Web of Science – Core Collection, BIOSIS Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, KCI-Korean Journal Database, MEDLINE, Russian Science Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index, and Zoological Record. Each of these can also be searched separately.

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Research Collection

CC    Archaeology

        CC    72 - 81    Philosophy, theory, methodology

        CC    83 - 97    Study and teaching, research

        CC    135 - 137    Preservation, restoration, conservation

CN    Inscriptions, epigraphy

D       History (General)

DA - DX    History of specific countries/regions

GF    Human ecology, anthropogeography

        GF    51    Environmental influences on humans

GF    Human ecology, anthropogeography

        GF    75    Human influences on the environment

GN    Anthropology

        GN    49 - 298    Physical anthropology

        GN    301 - 674    Ethnology, social and cultural anthropology

            GN    406 - 442    Cultural traits, customs, institutions

        GN    301 - 674    Ethnology, social and cultural anthropology

            GN    537 - 674    Ethnic groups and races

        GN    700 - 890    Prehistoric archaeology

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Physical government documents are shelved using the SuDocs (Superintendent of Documents) Classification Scheme.

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AE          National Archives and Records Administration           

LC           Library of Congress

I               Interior Department

ID            US Agency for International Development

SI            Smithsonian Institution

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Online Archives

Beazley Archive - The University of Oxford
Includes a Greek pottery database, Beazley’s drawings of pots, and styles and periods of Roman and Greek sculpture.
Digital Archaelogical Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS)
An initiative to foster archaeological research on slavery throughout the Chesapeake, the Carolinas, and the Caribbean.
National Anthropological Archives (NAA)
Provides information about the NAA's history, guides to the collections, and online exhibits. Also includes links to anthropology-related resources.
National Museum of Natural History: Anthropology Collections and Archives
The diverse collections of the Department of Anthropology are an unparalleled resource containing historical and contemporary materials that document the world's cultures and history of anthropology.
State Historical Society of North Dakota
The Archaeology and Historic Preservation Division protects and manages cultural resources by identifying and recording sites related to North Dakota's prehistory.

Online Data, Images, and Projects

Archaeology Data Service (ADS)
Aims to preserves digital data and promote/disseminate a broad range of data in archaeology.
CyArk
Digital exhibits of the worlds heritage sites allowing you to read about history, examine models of the heritage site, and much more.
Greater Angkor Project (GAP)
(GAP) is an international, multidisciplinary research programme interested in the decline of urbanism at Angkor, in Cambodia.
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Image Database
The Image Database includes photographs from original excavations and personal collections, as well as images of artifacts within the Museum's collections.
WPA/TVA Archaeological Photographs
Online database of information describing photographs taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam construction in the 1930s.

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Last updated: 8/19/2016