Reference and data sources for Archaeology and Prehistory
There are a number of online and print reference and data sources available:
| Reference and full-text databases | |
|---|---|
| Archaeology Data Service | Aims to collect, describe, catalogue, preserve and provide user support for digital resources created as a product of archaeological research. |
| Digimap via EDINA | Ordnance Survey and historic map data |
| Early English books online (EEBO) | Full text ebooks |
| Eighteenth century collections online (ECCO) | Full text ebooks |
| Google Earth | Earth imagery and other geographic information |
| Historic map collection, Digimap via EDINA | Historic map data |
| Lexicon des Mittelalters/International Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages | Cover Europe, Middle East and North Africa, 500-1500 |
| Oxford dictionary of national biography | Biographical reference resource |
| Printed resources | |
|---|---|
| Blackwell encyclopedia of industrial archaeology | WBL REF 609.03 (B) |
| Cambridge encyclopedia of archaeology | IC 913.03 (C) |
| Oxford encyclopedia of archaeology in the Near East (5 vols) | WBL REF 913.56 (O) |
| British Archaeological Reports (BAR) | WBL PER 913.05/BAR |
| Record Societies (includes early topographical and archaeological materials) | WBL 3 PER Record Societies then alphabetically by series |
| National index of parish registers (12 vols) | WBL 3B 929.3 (S) |
| British archives: a guide to archive resources in the United Kingdom | WBL REF 025.171 (F) |