Archaeology
- Frequently asked questions about a career in Archaeology in the U.S.
- http://www.museum.state.il.us/ismdepts/anthro/dlcfaq.html
- Archaeology @ About.com
- http://archaeology.about.com/?once=true&
- Archaeology Film Reviews
- http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/videos/index.html
- National Archaeological Database
- From the University of Arkansas and the National Park Service
http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology/TOOLS/nadb.htm
- ArchNet-WWW Virtual Library - Archaeology
- Hosted by Arizona State University
http://archnet.asu.edu/
- Center for Old World Archaeology and Art
- From Brown University
http://brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/
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Cultural Anthropology
- Anthropology Collection Database
- Anthropology collections of the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences
http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/anthcoll.html
- Anthro.Net
- Anthropology on the web, a search engine that queries a database of over 40,000 reviewed sites with anthropological content. Has geographic indexing.
http://www.anthro.net/
- American Anthropological Association
- Selected internet resources
http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm
- We the people: American indians and Alaska Natives in the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports
- A U.S. government report that provides a portrait of the American Indian and Alaska Native population in the United States and discusses the largest specified tribal groupsing, reservations, Alaska Native village statistical areas, and areas outside reservations at the national level.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/censr-28.pdf
- African Voices
- Smithsonian website featuring the history, culture and art of Africa.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/
- Exploring Ancient World Cultures
- An introductory, online text of ancient world cultures including Egypt, the Near East, India, China, Medieval Europe, Classical Greece, the Roman Empire and the Islamic World.
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
- WWW Virtual Library - American Indians
- Culture, history, education, art, language and more.
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/
- NativeWeb
- International, non-profit organization providing information about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations.
http://www.nativeweb.org/
- Yahoo's directory of Cultural Anthropoloy
- Links to ethnobiology, ethnography, medical and visual anthropology, kinship and language sites.
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Anthropology_and_Archaeology/
Cultural_Anthropology/
- Mesoweb: An exploration of Mesoamerican Cultures
- Links and articles devoted to ancient Mesoamerica and its cultures: the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacano, Zapotec, Mixtec, Toltec, Aztec and others. "We reserve the word Mayan for the language and the word Maya for the people and their culture, ancient and modern." Hosts the Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute. Also has some information about Peru.
http://www.mesoweb.com/
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General and Miscellaneous Links
- Librarians' Index to the Internet Anthropology Resources
- Librarian selected links
http://lii.org/search?title=Anthropology&query=Anthropology&subsearch=
Anthropology&searchtype=subject
- Theory in Anthropology
- Trends, subdisciplines, biographies of influential anthropologists
http://www.indiana.edu/~wanthro/theory.htm
- Yahoo's News coverage of Anthropology and Archaeology
- Current news
http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=science&cat=
anthropology_and_archaeology
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Associations
- University of Massachussetts List of Anthropology/Archaeology Associations
- http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/anthro/assoc.html
- American Anthropological Association
- http://www.aaanet.org/
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Journals
The Library provides access to a large number of electronic journals in history by subscription through several databases, and these can be browsed using the following links:
Anthropology Journals
Archaeology Journals
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Linguistics
- Linguistic Anthropology
- From Emory University
http://www.anthropology.emory.edu/Linganth/
- The Linguist List
- LINGUIST maintains a web-site with over 2000 pages and runs a mailing list with over 19,000 subscribers worldwide. LINGUIST also hosts searchable archives of over 100 other linguistic mailing lists and runs research projects which develop tools for the field, e.g., a peer-reviewed database of language and language-family information, and recommendations of best practice for digitizing endangered languages data.
http://www.linguistlist.org/
- AncientScripts.com
- An examination of dozens of writing systems worldwide, from Hieroglyphic and Ugartic to Indus and Chinese to Cherokee and Zapotec. There is information about the origins, types, and families of writing systems and a discussion of the development of the alphabet; and information about phonetics (using the American Phonetic Alphabet). There are also sound files in Cantonese illustrating how its tonal system works. There are related links and a bibliography. Searchable.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/
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Museums
- The University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology
- Digital collections in ethnology, Asian, North American, Great Lakes, Old World, New World, physical, and ethnobotany subject areas
http://www.umma.lsa.umich.edu/
- Anthropology Collection Database
- A searchable catalog, with over 7,000 images, of a collection of 17,000 objects from "the indigenous cultures of western North America (exclusive of Mexico) and of the Pacific Rim, including all Pacific islands and East Asia." It includes tools, jewelry, toys, watercraft, and more. Descriptive information and photographs, if available, are provided. Searchable by category, object name, materials, maker's name, collection, culture, or geographic origin. From the Department of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences.
http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/collections/collintro.htm
- American Museum of Natural History
- Large world cultures collection
http://www.amnh.org/
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/default.html
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Physical Anthropology
- Physical Anthropology Tutorials
- A brief course in physical anthropology including modules on evolution, genetics, heredity, human variation, classification, primates, and hominids. From Palomar College.
- http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/physical.htm
- Physical Anthropology Resources
- A large list of links to PA associations, forensics resources and paleoarchaeology sites.
- http://www.killgrove.org/osteo.html"
- Midwest Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology Association
- Links to other PA and forensics sites.
- http://www.luc.edu/depts/anthropology/BARFAA/
- Discovery of Early Hominids
- http://anthro.palomar.edu/hominid/australo_1.htm
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