Research Guides: Anthropology: Archaeology

Article Databases

AnthroSource
Full-text database with American Anthropological Association publications, including journals and newsletters.
eHRAF Archaeology
Focuses on in-depth descriptive documents of archaeological traditions worldwide. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level. This allows detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords.

AFOB Online
The Archaeological Fieldwork Bulletin Online is one of the largest online listings of fieldwork opportunities in the world. It supplies information beyond a simple list of excavation opportunities, including general and site-specific bibliographies, how to find and choose fieldwork, advice on preparing for participation in an excavation, and more.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library that contains hundreds of thousands of high-resolution images of art, architecture, and archaeological artifacts. Each image is accompanied by descriptive information. The Auraria Library's subscription to ARTstor also offers ArchiVision (architecture) and Shared Shelf (images created and shared by campus faculty).
JSTOR
Access the full-text of thousands of scholarly journals and books covering the humanities, social sciences, and business. Many journals extend to the first volume. Auraria Library has access to the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection.
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
Hundreds of full text digitized journals, with content ranging from the early 19th century to the year 2000. Titles cover subject matter ranging across the social sciences and humanities.
Project Muse
Full text access to scholarly journals and books in the arts, literature, history, ethnic studies, philosophy, religion, music, anthropology, education, film and media studies, political sciences, mathematics, gender studies, and related areas.
ScienceDirect
Provides access to thousands of full-text journal articles and ebooks related to science, technology, engineering, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.

American Antiquity
AAQ is devoted to archaeology regionally conducted in the Western Hemisphere (North America) inclusive of diverse archaeological methods and theory pertinent to the study of North American archaeology and closely related subjects with global impact.
American Journal of Archaeology
Founded in 1885 and is one of the world’s most distinguished and widely distributed peer-reviewed archaeological journals. The AJA reaches more than 40 countries and approximately 700 universities, learned societies, departments of antiquities, and museums.
Archaeology
Edited for a general audience, its news, features, and photo essays employ in-depth reporting, cogent analysis, and vivid storytelling to provide an accurate and often surprisingly intimate look at the record of human existence.
Journal of Archaeological Science
Aimed at archaeologists and scientists with particular interests in advancing the development and application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology.
Oxford Journal of Archaeology
Covers the range of European and Mediterranean archaeology from Paleolithic to medieval times.
World Archaeology
Was established specifically to deal with archaeology on a world-wide multiperiod basis. Since it was founded in 1969 it remains a leader in its field.