Anthropology | Professional & Technical Reference, Information, & Resources

Anthropology | Professional & Technical Information & Reference

California Academy of Sciences
Department of Anthropology, collection of approximately 16,000 objects represents material cultures from peoples throughout the world

Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity
University of Missouri - St. Louis human origin & diversity program

CIA World Factbook
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) World Factbook provides reference information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, infrastructure, transportation, and military capability for 266 world nations and includes maps of the major world regions, flags of the world, and a physical, political, and time zone demarcation maps of the world

CSA CAD Guide for Archaeologists & Architectural Historians Open Source
A professional open-source guide to the use of CAD systems for Archaeology and Architectural History

Dental Microwear | Technique & Software
Information, resources, and software for the analysis of microscopic scratches and pits that form on a tooth's surface as the result of its use to understand and reconstruct diets in human ancestors and other fossil primates. Provided by the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas.

Gridded Population of the World (GPWv3) / Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)
The human population presented in a common geo-referenced framework, produced by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of the Earth Institute at Columbia University depicting the distribution of human population across the globe as well as other useful global data. Data and maps distributed.

National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives
Exhibits and Collections, manuscripts, and recording at the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History

World Atlas of Language Structures
Extensive database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials (such as reference grammars).

Related Publications

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
The journal Natural Language & Linguistic Theory provides a forum for theoretical research focused on natural language data, offering a channel of communication between researchers from a variety of viewpoints.

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