History Resources

SkinWalker

SkinWalker

Archaeology / Anthropology
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These are some links that I've collected on some of the historical and archeological topics that have interested me. I hope others will list some sources of information relating to history, prehistory and archaeology in this thread. Discussions on good books and journal or magazine articles are also worth mentioning here. I'll sticky the thread and let it grow, but expect tangents or discussions that go on for more than a few posts to get split to their own threads. Woo-woo links and spam will be deleted.



Prehistory
Becoming Human
http://www.becominghuman.org/
Book reviews, paleo news and a 25mb documentary to download

Human Origins Program
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/index.htm
Smithsonian program dedicated to understanding the biological and cultural foundations of human life.

The Cave of Lascaux
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/
The Neanderthal cave site


Antiquity
British Museum's 'Ancient Civilizations'
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/education/ancientcivilizations/index.html
A series of culture-based websites that look in depth at the achievements of some of the most remarkable world civilizations

The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook.html
Hundreds of local files as well as links to source texts throughout the net though many links appear broken. Worth visiting just for the outline.

ABZU
http://www.etana.org/abzu/
A guide to information related to study of the Ancient Near East

Mesopotamia
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/MESO.HTM
Learn about the Sumerians to the Akkadians, the Hittites to the Chaldeans. Great summaries of these and other Mesopotamian civilizations

Egypt
Theban Mapping Project
http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/
Interactive maps and movies of the tombs at Thebes. Truly a fantastic site

Explore the Pyramids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/textindex.html
Nova (PBS) photos, transcripts and the like

Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology
http://academic.memphis.edu/egypt/kv63.html
Info on the most recent tomb discover: KV63

Greece
Ancient Greece
http://www.ancientgreece.com/
Want to know the difference between a Doric and an Ionic column? The hierarchy of the Greek pantheon?


Mesoamerica
Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/index.html
A ready source of information and links to topics in Mesoamerica from the Maya and Mixtec to the Atzec and the Zapotec

The Mesoamerican Ballgame
http://www.ballgame.org/
The sport of life and death


Web Blogs
Archaeoastronomy
http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/

Salto Sobrius
http://saltosobrius.blogspot.com/index.html

Archaeoblog
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Paleojudaica
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Abnormal Interests
http://www.telecomtally.com/blog/

Four Stone Hearth
http://fourstonehearth.net/
Bi-weekly blog carnival for anthropology & archaeology

History Carnival
http://historycarnival.blogsome.com/
Twice monthly blog carnival for history. Pick a date and click to find a plethora of links to various history related blogs
 
I'm going hold this post in case we're lucky and this thread grows large enough to need a table of contents.
 
A couple that I've gathered up:
(You've already listed several others.)

Çatalhöyük Home Page: Neolithic site in central Anatolia. One of the largest and earliest cities (village?) in ancient history. The city passes through hunter-gatherer to farming culture. Fascinating finds and cultural implications.
http://www.catalhoyuk.com/


Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean: An interactive map of Aegean archaeological sites.
http://www.ypai.gr/atlas/default_uk.asp#
 
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Yes, nice find! I hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of copying the thread to the History Resources thread.
 
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