Collins Memorial Library: Greek, Latin, &amp; Ancient Mediterranean Studies: Archaeology

Resources for Archaeology

This tab highlights several additional resources that you may find useful if you are researching archaeology.

Metis (QTVR)
Explore archaeological sites from multiple angles.
tDAR
The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) is an international digital archive and repository that houses data about archaeological investigations, research, resources, and scholarship. tDAR provides researchers new avenues to discover and integrate information relevant to topics they are studying. Users can search tDAR for digital documents, data sets, images, GIS files, and other data resources from archaeological projects spanning the globe. For data sets, users also can use data integration tools in tDAR to simplify and illuminate comparative research.
Ancient World Mapping Center
From the University of North Carolina. This project exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies.

The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 2nd ed. by Neil Asher Silberman (Editor)
Call Number: Click the title above for online access.
ISBN: 9780199735785
Publication Date: 2012
This book provides thorough coverage to historical archaeology, the development of archaeology as a field of study, and the way the discipline works to explain the past. In addition to these theoretical entries, other entries describe the major excavations, discoveries, and innovations. Recent developments in methods and analytical techniques which have revolutionized the ways excavations are performed are also covered; as well as new areas within archeology, such as cultural tourism.
An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology by Nancy T. De Grummond
Call Number: DE5 .E5 1996 (vols. 1-2) Reference
ISBN: 9780313302053
Publication Date: 1996
This book considers archaeological study in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern era. It includes entries on individuals whose activities influenced knowledge of sites and monuments and sites as seen, changed, and interpreted through time; entries on major works of art excavated during the Renaissance; and works that were known in the Middle Ages.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites by Richard Stillwell (Editor)
Call Number: DE59 .P7 Reference
ISBN: 9780691035420
Publication Date: 1976
Published over a generation ago, but this reference resource may still provide some valuable information.