A selected listing of important Internet-based resources in anthropology and archaeology.

AAA Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Annotated metaindex of anthropology sources from the American Anthropological Association

Abstracts in Anthropology
Covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropologigal topics from a vast number of periodicals. Coverage from 2003 to present.

Academic Info- Directory of Online Anthropology Resources
Includes: digital publications, cultural & social anthropology, physical & biological anthropology, archaeology, Kennewick Man resources, as well as a listing of anthropology organizations.

Anthropology and Archaeology in Latin America
A guide compiled by LANIC and the University of Texas containing regional and country resources.

Anthropology Review Database - ARD
"ARD is an ever-growing, free, and fully searchable database of reviews covering the entire gamut of anthropological publications, including books, audiovisual materials, software & multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, and on-line resources."

AnthroSource
The premier online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs
of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology
and Education Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Archaeological Publications of the American Anthropological Association, Cultural Anthropology, Ethos, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, NAPA Bulletin and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

AnthroTECH- WWW Virtual Library of Anthropology
This is a comprehensive list of Internet resources that covers a wide range of anthropological fields including archaeology, cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, and linguistics.

ArchNet - WWW Virtual Library
Archaeology - ArchNet serves as the World Wide Web Virtual Library for Archaeology. Information is categorized by geographic region and subject.

Biological Anthropology Resources on the World Wide Web
Links to resources in biological anthropology including subdisciplinary level sources.

California Academy of Sciences Anthropology Collection
A database containing descriptions and digital images of objects contained in the department of anthropology. "Current strengths of the collection are general holdings from the U.S. Southwest and the Pacific Islands, and basketry from California."

E-HRAF Collection of Ethnography
The E-HRAF Collection of Ethnography is a Web-based, multi-cultural database for disciplines with an interest in cultural diversity. E-HRAF contains over 300,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life with diverse topics ranging from religious beliefs, bringing up children, causes and cures of diseases, to economic and political behavior. (Database restricted to USD users only)

Ethnographic Studies Internet Resource Page
A Collection of Resources in Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Folklore, and Folklife from the Library of Congress.

Forensic Anthropology and Human Osteology Resources
A selected list of Web links covering these topics.

Guide to Underwater Archaeology Resources on the Internet
Includes institutes, museums, sites, newsletters, and online tools for nautical archaeology.

National Archaeological Database Reports
"The National Archeological Database, Reports module, is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This "gray literature" represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S."

PrimateLit: A Bibliographic Database for Primatology
"The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography)."

Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists
The Worldwide Email Directory of Anthropologists (WEDA) is a searchable database of address and research information about anthropologists from around the world.

 

Page by Michael Epstein, Anthropology Bibliographer, Copley Library

Updated March 24, 2006