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Archaeology Subject Guide

Encyclopedias

Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology
--Reference Stacks-- CC 70 .C59 1999 (2 v.); also available online
Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries
--Reference Stacks-- CC 100 .E54 2001 (3 v.)
Encyclopedia of Archaeology: The Great Archaeologists
--Reference Stacks-- CC 110 .E54 1999 (2 v.)
Larousse Encyclopedia of Archaeology
--Reference Stacks-- CC 165 .C4313
The Atlas of World Archaeology
--Reference Stacks-- CC 165 .A85 2000

Handbooks

The Amateur Archaeologist's Handbook
--Reference Stacks-- CC 75.5 .R62 1981
Archaeology: A Reference Stacks Handbook
--Reference Stacks-- CC 70 .D39
The Archaeology of Regional Interaction
--online-- netLibrary e-book
Remote Sensing: A Handbook for Archeologists and Cultural Resource Managers
--Reference Stacks-- CC 76.4 .L96

Dictionaries

Collins Dictionary of Archaeology
--Reference Stacks-- CC 70 .C58 1993
Dictionary of Concepts in Archaeology
--Reference Stacks-- CC 70 .M45 1993
The Concise Encyclopedia of Archaeology
--Reference Stacks-- CC 70 .C6 1
Medieval Archaeology: an Encyclopedia
--Reference Stacks-- D 125 .M42 2001
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
--Reference Stacks-- CC 70 .O96 1996; also available online

Style Manuals

The Chicago manual of style
--Ready Reference and 4th floor stacks-- Z 253 .C57
A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Turabian)
--Ready Reference and 4th floor stacks-- LB 2369 .T8 1987
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
--Ready Reference-- BF 76.7 .P83
APA Style Guide to Electronic References, 2007
--Ready Reference-- PN171. F56 .A63 2007; also available online

Bibliographies

Atlas of World Cultures
--Reference Stacks-- G 1046 .E1 P7 1990
Social Sciences (Washington, D.C.)
-- online -- current issue only

Statistical Sources

Bayesian Approach to Interpreting Archaeological Data
--online-- netLibrary e-book

Biographies

Encyclopedia of Archaeology. The Great Archaeologists
--Reference Stacks-- CC 110 .E54 1999 v.1, v. 2
The Makers of Classical Archaeology: A Reference Work
--Reference Stacks-- DE 9 .A1 M43 2000

Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Complete-- Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of articles published in scholarly publications from many disciplines.

Art Abstracts-- Indexes, abstracts and provides some full-text articles from international art, advertising, archaeology, folk art, graphics art, video, film, architecture, and art history periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins.

Dissertation Abstracts-- Indexes all doctoral dissertations completed at U. S. accredited institutions since 1861 and selected master's theses and foreign language dissertations; provides abstracts of dissertations since 1981 and 24-page previews of recent dissertations.

Sociological Abstracts-- Indexes and abstracts articles from scholarly journals covering sociology, anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, social psychology, and urban studies.

JSTOR-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science and population studies.

LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic-- Provides full-text of: U.S. and international newspapers; business, industry and market news; accounting literature; company financial reports and profiles; legal news and reviews; state and federal case law; state, U.S., Canadian, Commonwealth and E.U. codes and regulations; patents; medical news and journals; state and country profiles; biographies and quotations; polls and surveys and a world almanac.

Project Muse-- Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of scholarly journal articles in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.

WorldCat-- Indexes and provides information on library locations of materials at more than 9,000 worldwide libraries.

Internet Sites

A Chronology of North American Archaeology -- A wide range of information about archaeology: a timeline of its development in the United States

Dating Exhibit -- Sponsored by Minnesota State University, this web site covers and discusses a variety of archaeological dating techniques.