Archaeology & Anthropology | Data Archives, Centers, Reference, & Resources

Archaeology | Data Archives & Centers, Reference Information

Archaeology Data Service
The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) at the University of York supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
Online accessible archive representing the efforts of an international group of Assyriologists, museum curators and historians of science to make available the form and content of cuneiform tablets dating from the beginning of writing, ca. 3350 BC, until the end of the pre-Christian era.

FASTi Online
Between 1946 and 1987 the International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) published the Fasti Archaeologici. It contained useful summary notices of excavations throughout the area of the Roman Empire. FASTi Online is a newly revived service that began in 2000.

National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. NTIS provides businesses, universities, and the public with access to approximately 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas. The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is part of the US Department of Commerce.

PastScape | National Monuments Record UK
A quick and easy way to search nearly 400,000 records held in the national historic environment database including information on archaeological, architectural and maritime sites.

Radar Images of Earth: Archaeology
JPL site featuring radar images of some important archaeological locations

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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

Cultural Protection Treaties & Other International Agreements
Cultural protection treaties and international agreements provided by The Fletcher School at Tufts University

Iraq | Report a Stolen Artifact or Treasure from Iraq
Provides a database of objects including treasures and artifacts that have been stolen or looted from Iraq as well as a place to report information about stolen artifacts.

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Anthropology | Data Archives & Centers, Reference Information

AnthroKids | Anthropometric Data of Children
Results of two studies which collected anthropometric data of children.

Forensic Osteology
Forensicosteology.org is dedicated to the free dissemination of forensic osteology data to academic, humanitarian, and law enforcement communities worldwide

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.

Hominin.net
Database of fossils and associated metadata, references, and researchers

Human Genome Project | Selection Browser
Selection browser of the Human Genome Project. Search using a sequence name, gene name, locus, or other landmark

National Anthropological Archives & Human Studies Film Archives
The NAA and HSFA collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology

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

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