A resource focusing on the ancient Near East, Abzu gives access to a number of digitized texts and other online publications. Edited by Charles E. Jones, Research Archivist-Bibliographer at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, the site allows one to locate and display desired sources either by entering terms in a search engine or by browsing by author or title.
Well-organized and easily navigated, this site provides extensive coverage of online resources for archaeology. Resources are organized by region and subject area, but also by categories that include academic departments, museums, news, and journals and publishers. The site likewise offers a question-and-answer section and a search engine.
A resource offered by the Archaeological Institute of American, this site gives the user online connections to up-to-date lists and descriptions of opportunities for doing archaeological fieldwork in various parts of the world.
A collection of links pointing the user to current archaeological communication and information resources across Europe. The links can be accessed by country, subject or period.
Addresses the issues of job availability and potential employment, educational requirements, and how to volunteer for a dig. It also contains references to sources for background information in the field of archaeology.
Offers a glimpse into the research being done by this organization in their terrestrial and underwater archaeology programs.
Developed by a classical archaeologist, Ioannis Georganas, this site provides a useful compilation of links to journals, bibliographies, online resources, and organizations relating to the ancient Mediterranean.
This site holds a broad range of sources of topical information, including announcements, newsgroups and listservers, software, and pictures.
Clicking on the name of a state of the United States displays the name and address of that state's official archaeologist.
For both public and professional users, this site offers multiple sources of information about prehistoric and historic North American archaeology, including reports on Kennewick Man and links to federal laws, regulations, and standards relating to cultural resources.
Inventories of over 350,000 archaeological investigations, maps displaying archaeological and environmental data at the state/county level. It can be searched by keyword, material, and geographic area.
The Center, a private nonprofit organization, promotes stewardship of archaeological and historical resources in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest through active research, preservation, and public education. Its website includes links to online exhibits, news and newsletters, descriptions of projects, a bookstore, and various resources.
This online leaflet, published by the Smithsonian Institution's Anthropology Outreach Office, lists and describes numerous field schools and research organizations - as well as sources of information about such programs - that provide opporunties for summertime fieldwork in archaeology.
Websites produced by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication enable viewers to take virtual tours of three marvelous cave sites famed for their prehistoric wall paintings: Lascaux, closed to visitors since 1963; Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc, discovered in 1994; and La Grotte Cosquer, located on the Mediterranean coast and accessible only to divers.
