TARL Brown Bag Talk
Prof. Samuel M. Wilson
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas
ANT 304 Course homepage
Archaeology on the World Wide Web
(2 May, 1997)
Introduction: You can find almost anything...
- Mysteries of the unexplained...
- Atlantis Pages
- Fringe Archaeology pages
- Stuff from my Intro Class's links
- one of my favorites... ANTI archaeology
- Where to start? With a good search engine
Really good references
- Archnet -- from the University of Connecticut
- ARGE -- Archaeological Resource Guide for Europe
- Anita Cohen-Williams links
- Stuff from my Intro Class's links
- David Carlson's Anthropology in the News
Who writes this stuff anyway?
- A self-selected group
- A way of trying out drafts and papers for comments (e.g. SAA papers)
- even draft site reports, like the 72-71 site on the Mashantucket-Pequot Reservation in Ledyard, Connecticut.
- also general reports on sites, e.g. the Silo Site
- Electronic Journals in Anthropology & Archaeology
- Class Projects, e.g. my class's research papers or Glossary project.
- Class materials, e.g. Steve Black's CRM course or Jim Denbow's Archaeology of African Thought
- Tourist Guides with photos
- People interested in communicating with others on specific topics, e.g. lithics
What kinds of things are useful
- Topics and tools, programs, Radiocarbon information, etc.
- Regional Guides and bibliographies, e.g. for the Southwest
- Bibliographies, e.g. bib. on the archaeology of gender, and other topics.
- Maps
- Aerial and satellite photos
- databases of sites / artifacts. E.g. Digmaster, a database of Persian figurines and site report from the Near East, Caribbean artifacts at the Peabody museum
- Image archives for use in lectures, etc. The La Salle Shipwreck stuff.
- Job hunting
- Grant hunting
- Department hunting
- Hunting for email addresses...
Razzle-Dazzle
- Cerén, digitally reconstructed
- Chetro Ketl Great Kiva