Website Review: DAACS

Full Name: Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery URL: http://www.daacs.org Content: 100,000s of artifacts as well as excavated contexts from about 20 archaeological sites in the Chesapeake region, South Carolina and Jamaica, dating back to the 17th-19th century Authorship: Department of Archaeology, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA Host/Maintenance: Robert H. […] Read More

Website Review: ABMAP

Full Name: Animal Bone Metrical Archive Project URL: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?abmap Content: measurements of 24,000+ bones of domestic animals from 100+ archaeological assemblages from excavations in southern Britain, from all periods from the Neolithic to the eighteenth century AD, with most from later periods Authorship: Centre for Applied Archaeological Analysis (formerly Centre for Human Ecology), University of […] Read More

Website Review: PaleoDB

Full Name: The Paleobiology Database URL: http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl Content: Global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well as web-based software for statistical analysis of the data entry page Authorship: John Alroy, project coordinator (University of California, Santa Barbara); individual international contributors Host/Maintenance: National Center for […] Read More

Website Review: NADB

Full Name: National Archeological Database URL: http://www.nps.gov/history/archeology/TOOLS/Nadb.htm (or http://www.cast.uark.edu/home/research/archaeology-and-historic-preservation/archaeological-informatics/national-archaeological-database.html) Content: searchable bibliographic inventory of 350,000+ “grey literature” reports on archeological investigation and planning in the US according to information provided by esp. State Historic Preservation Offices and federal agencies; county-level-averaged maps of site distribution, citation densities, etc.; searchable database of permits planned Authorship: National Park […] Read More