Portable Antiquities (Subscribe)
Categories
- United Kingdom (9)
- Stone Tools (25)
- Greece (6)
- Glass (6)
- Clay Pipes (6)
- Ceramics (10)
Links
The Bead Study Trust
http://www.beadstudytrust.org.uk/
A registered charity which promotes research into beads world-wide, using archaeological, ethnographic and scientific techniques. Newsletter, publications.
Spoilheap Archaeology
Illustrated introductions to pottery, burials and human bones from archaeologist Sue Anderson. Also bibliographies and reports on finds from specific sites.
Spanish Colonial Military Artifacts
Exhibition and interpretation of ca. 1650-1821 Spanish colonial military artifacts from the former Spanish Floridas and Louisiana. Emphasis is on such uniform-related materials as buttons, buckles, and insignia.
Portable Antiquities Scheme
A government-backed scheme for the recording of finds in England and Wales. Includes a database containing information on c.9,000 archaeological finds with c.600 images.
Portable Antiquities
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/detecting/index.html
CBA guide to portable antiquities, metal detecting and archaeology.
Homo Faber or Homo Symbolicus
http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/0108/berggren-copper.html
Transoxiana 8. The question asked is why beginning in the sixth millennium we find such a fascination with copper jewelry and small axes considering that copper tools are less efficient than those made of stone.
Asian American Comparative Collection
http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/LS/AACC/
Established in 1982 at the University of Idaho. A type collection and database for 19th and 20th century Asian objects likely to be encountered in North America.
An Archaeological Guide to Historic Artifacts of the Upper Sangamon Basin
http://virtual.parkland.edu/lstelle1/len/archguide/documents/arcguide.htm
A visual guide by Lenville J. Stelle for those interested in identifying and dating 19th and 20th century artifacts common to the American Midwest.