This guide was designed by Alyse Ergood and Jennifer Boxen to help identify resources on Archaeology and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the the Off Campus Connect link (formerly EZ Proxy)and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785), use our Online Chat service or send an e-mail lyref@fau.edu.


 SUBJECT HEADINGS

When using the library catalog to look for books and other materials, you may want to do a "Subject" search and use the following Library of Congress subject headings.  This is not a complete list. 
 

                                                                                    Archaeology
                                                                                    Antiquities
                                                                                    Civilization
                                                                                    History
                                                                                    Human remains--archaeology
                                                                                    Field work
                                                                                    Cultural property
                                                                                    Physical anthropology
                                                                                    Prehistoric peoples                                                                           
                                                                                    Plant remains
                           

*Locating materials in the S.E. Wimberly Library*
Feel free to walk through the statcks; sometimes the best books are found by browsing.  These call numbers provide the general location of materials related to archaeology. 
            

                                                            CC                             Archaeology (General)
                                                            CC73-81                    Methodology
                                                            CC72-81                    Archaeological philosophy and theory
                                                            CC135-137                Preservation, restoration and conservation of antiquities             
                                                            GN700-890               Prehistoric archaeology                                                           
                                                            QH1-278.5                Natural history (general)                
 


ELECTRONIC DATABASES
  Each database contains a collection of journal articles, abstracts and primary sources.  Search individual databases to find your references and research.  
 

ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data and tools to actively use those images.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.
  Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex)
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change from 1991 to present.
  Anthropology Plus
Anthropology Plus brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
  Art Index Full Text
Subjects include Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, and Textiles. Full-text coverage for Art Index with Full Text begins in 1997.
 

Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information of over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. With the release of CC Connect® version 1.6, users can also search a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites through ISI Current Web Contents™.

 
EthnicNewsWatch and EthnicNewsWatch: A History
Provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and historical topics. It is searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages. Includes African-American, Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Island, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native American ethnic publications.
 
Expanded Academic ASAP
Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines.
 
GEOBASE
Contains citations with abstracts covering worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, international development, and their related disciplines. Subject coverage includes cartography, climatology, energy, environment, geomorphology, hydrology, photogrammetry, sedimentology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, petrology, volcanology, and much more.
 
GeoRef
The GeoRef database is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences. The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
 
Handbook of Latin American Studies
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook.
Human Relations Area Files
A unique cross-cultural database, HARF contains more than a quarter of a million pages of descriptive information on the cultures of the world. The full-text materials are subject-indexed at the paragraph-level for precise retrieval of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. These materials are relevant to the various social science disciplines.
InfoTrac OneFile
Search humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics.
JSTOR
Provides full-text full image access to over sixty journal titles from the inception of the titles up to within the past five years. Covers African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology and Statistics.
Kluwer Online
Kluwer Online is electronic access to the journals published by Kluwer which incorporates the imprints of Kluwer Academic Publishers (including the former science and technology titles under International Thompson/Chapman & Hall), Kluwer Law International, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers and Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press (both formerly published under the Plenum imprint). Includes over 600 journals along with searching capabilities, abstracts, and full-text back to 1987.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts  
Assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
MLA
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to over 4,000 journals and serials published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
netLibrary
A collection of over 20,000 online full-text nonfiction electronic books ranging from Cliffs Notes to travel guides to computer programming manuals.
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases:Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature amp; Information Science Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
Periodicals Archive Online
Provides indexing for the contents of older issues of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences dating back to 1770. Complete tables of contents are included for each issue of each journal. Includes journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Contains some full text articles.
 
ProQuest Digital Dissertations
Authoritative source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses. This database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.
Social Sciences Full Text
Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.  Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
Web of Science-Social Science Citation Index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses 
Provides access to over 5 million records of dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries catalogs in the WorldCat database. Many theses are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.

                                                         

                                                         
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF CC70 .K56 Shaw, Ian and Robert Jameson, eds. A dictionary of archaeology. 1996.
REF DT58 .E53 Bard, Kathryn A. and Steven B. Shubert, eds. Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt. 1999.
REF CC75 .A654 Ellis, Linda, ed. Archaeological method and theory: an encyclopedia. 2000.
REF F1218.6 .A73 Evans, Susan Toby and David Webster, eds. Archaeology of ancient Mexico and Central America: an encyclopedia. 2001. 
REF E77.9 .A72 Gibbon, Gay and Kenneth Ames, [et al.], eds. Archaeology of prehistoric native America: an encyclopedia. 1998.
REF CC70 .K56 Kipfer, Barbara Ann. Encyclopedic dictionary of archaeology. 2000.
REF CC100 .E54 Murray, Tim, ed. Encyclopedia of archaeology: histories and discoveries. 2001.
REF CC110 .E54 Murray, Tim, ed. Encyclopedia of archaeology: The great archaeologists. 1999.
REF DS111.A2 A73 Myers, Eric M., ed. The Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East. 1990.
REF DS111.A2 A73 Negev, Avraham, ed. The Archaeological encyclopedia of the holy Land. 3rd ed. 1990.
 


GUIDES

DG62 .C53 Claridge, Amanda. Rome: an Oxford archaeological guide. 1998.
DP44 .C675 Collins, Roger. Spain: an Oxford archaeological guide. 1998.
DA770 .R48 Ritchie, Anna. Scotland: an Oxford archaeological guide. 1998.
 


SELECTED WEB SITES

American Anthropological Association Homepage
ArchNet
ARD:Anthropology Review Database
Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
Voice of the Shuttle
VOS Archaeology Page
UCSB Links to Anthropology Web Sites

 

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS 

Off Campus access thourgh EZ-Proxy

African archaeological review Academic Search Premier
SpringerLink
 
1997 to 1 year ago
1997 to present
American antiquity JSTOR
Academic OneFile
1935 to 2003
1993 to present
American journal of  archaeology JSTOR 1897 to 2001
Arabian archaeology and epigraphy Blackwell Synergy 1997 to present
Archaeological dialogues Cambridge 2003 to 2007
Archaeological prospection Wiley 1997 to 2007
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research JSTOR
EBSCO
1921 to 2003
2001 to 2007
Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research in Jerusalem JSTOR 1919 to 1921
Cambridge archaeological journal Cambridge 2000 to 2007
Chungará DOAJ 2000 to 2007
Ethos Ingenta 2000 to 2006
International journal of nautical archaeology Science Direct
Blackwell Synergy
1993 to 2003
1972 to Present
Journal of archaeological method MetaPress
Springerlink
2001 to Present
2001 to Present
Journal of archaeological research MetaPress
Springerlink
2001 to Present
2001 to Present
Journal of Caribbean archaeology DOAJ 2000 to 2005; 2007
Journal of field archaeology JSTOR 1974 to 2004
Journal of world prehistory MetaPress
SpringerLink
2000 to 2006
1997 to 2006
North American archaeologist MetaPress 2002 to 2005
Oxford journal of archaeology Blackwell Synergy 1982 to Present
World archaeology JSTOR
Ingenta
1969 to 2003
2000 to 2006

 

PRINT PERIODICALS 

Acta archaeologica Academiae
Scientiarum Hungaricae
DB920 .A15 1986 to 1991
American antiquity; a quarterly review of American archaeology E51 .A52 1936 to 2004
American journal of archaeology CC1 .A6 1963 to 2004
Anthropology & archeology of Eurasia GN1 .S66 1993 to 2002
The Antiquaries journal. DA20 .S612 1986 to 1990
Antiquity; a quarterly review of archaeology CC1 .A7 1965 to 2006
Ethnos GN1 .E88 1966 to 2004
The Florida Anthropologist E78.F6.F58 Incomplete holdings, 1948 to 2000
Hesperia DF10 .H4 1986 to 2005
Historical archaeology E11 .S625 1999 to 2004
Journal of anthropological archaeology CC79.E85 J68 1984 to 2004
Journal of archaeological method and theory CC75 .J66 1995 to 2003
Journal of field archaeology CC1 .J58 1974 to 2006
The Kiva E78.S7 K58 1986 to 1990;
2006 to Present
Latin American antiquity : a journal of
the Society for American Archaeology
E51 .L37 1990 to 2004
North American archaeologist E77.8 .N67 1979 to 1985;
2005 to 2006
World archaeology CC1 .W6 1986 to 2004


MISCELLANEOUS

CC165 .A85 Bahn, Paul G., ed. The atlas of world archaeology. 2000.
CC100 .C28 Bahn, Paul G., ed. The Cambridge illustrated history of archaeology. 1996.
CC70 O96 Fagan, Brian and Charlotte Beck [et al.], eds. The Oxford companion to archaeology. 1996.

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