Archaeology: Web Data & Primary Sources

Offers peer reviewed papers describing archaeology datasets.

Includes fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video and other materials that document the world's cultures. Covers ethnology, linguistics, archaeology and physical anthropology. Created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars.

Offers four components: 1) downloadable tables of human skeletal data from Ban Chiang and Non Nok Tha, 2) a searchable and downloadable database of stratigraphic, typological, and analytical data on all metals, crucibles, molds, and slag found at the sites of Ban Chiang, Ban Tong, Ban Phak Top, and Don Klang, 3) multilingual archaeological vocabulary lists, and 4) a searchable bibliography of references on Southeast Asian archaeology and ethnography.

Offers images of codices and excavations, as well as bibliographies of published literature pertaining to most aspects of the ancient cultures of Mesoamerica. A project of FAMSI and the Museum Library of the University of Pennsylvania.