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Archaeology
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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, VII, and VIII, as well as the Language and Literature and Life Sciences collections. 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.
Google Scholar (Google)
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. If using Google Scholar off-campus, please follow these instructions to set your preferences to connect to NDSU Library resources.
Historical Abstracts (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 (Clarivate Analytics)
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.
Browse the Shelves
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
Print Government Information
Physical government documents are shelved using the SuDocs (Superintendent of Documents) Classification Scheme.
Please send us a chat or speak with us in person at the Reference Desk if you need help locating a government document.
AE National Archives and Records Administration
LC Library of Congress
I Interior Department
ID US Agency for International Development
SI Smithsonian Institution
Find Primary Sources
Online Archives
Includes a Greek pottery database, Beazley’s drawings of pots, and styles and periods of Roman and Greek sculpture.
An initiative to foster archaeological research on slavery throughout the Chesapeake, the Carolinas, and the Caribbean.
Provides information about the NAA's history, guides to the collections, and online exhibits. Also includes links to anthropology-related resources.
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.
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
Aims to preserves digital data and promote/disseminate a broad range of data in archaeology.
Digital exhibits of the worlds heritage sites allowing you to read about history, examine models of the heritage site, and much more.
(GAP) is an international, multidisciplinary research programme interested in the decline of urbanism at Angkor, in Cambodia.
The Image Database includes photographs from original excavations and personal collections, as well as images of artifacts within the Museum's collections.
Online database of information describing photographs taken by Works Progress Administration (WPA) in preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam construction in the 1930s.
