Open Archaeology

Open Archaeology. See the Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology for more details.

Please note that only open data should be added to this group. Data to enquiry may be tagged "archaeology".

Metadata

See http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Location_in_CKAN for the proposed metadata for both spatial and temporal dimensions. Basically, use meaningful tags.

Datasets

14 datasets found.

Aegean Archaeomalacology    xhtml atom xhtml atom

Mollusk Shells in Troia, Yenibademli, and Ulucak: An Archaeomalacological Approach to Environment and Economy in the Aegean This dataset includes detailed measurements and morphological...

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Antikythera Survey Project    zip, csv, shp

Complete dataset All datasets are now in final form. License The CC0 1.0 license is mentioned in the metadata for each archive.

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Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions    application/zip

From the website: This is the electronic second edition, expanded and revised from the version published by the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies in 1989. The editions and...

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Bade Museum    xhtml atom atom

This project is a digital catalog of all the artifacts, archives, and photographs from the Tell en-Nasbeh Collection at the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology at Pacific School of...

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Inscriptions of Aphrodisias    application/zip

From the website: This is the first edition of the online corpus of the inscriptions of Aphrodisias recorded up to 1994. The editions, translations and commentary are by Joyce Reynolds,...

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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania    application/zip application/atom+xml

The EpiDoc XML files that encode all of the information behind each inscription have been made available to download under a Creative Commons Attribution license. You may download...

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International Tree-Ring Data Bank   

About data Raw tree-ring measurements. The International Tree-Ring Data Bank is maintained by the NOAA Paleoclimatology Program and World Data Center for Paleoclimatology. The Data Bank...

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Khirbat al-Mudayna al-Aliya    application/xml+atom application/xml+atom application/xml+atom

Investigations of an Early Iron Age site in a semi-arid zone in west-central Jordan.

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OA Library   

This site is used to disseminate material, including grey literature client reports, produced by Oxford Archaeology.

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Berkeley Open Archaeology Collection   

This collection contains course materials, student projects, and hundreds of other resources for teaching and learning archaeology.

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Petra Great Temple Excavations    xhtml atom

Archaeological contexts, small finds, glass remains, zooarchaeology, coins, and architectural elements observed during the Brown University excavations at the Great Temple at Petra,...

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Pleiades    text/turtle example/turtle

Description Pleiades is a gazetteer for ancient world studies operated by NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and supported by the US National Endowment for the Humanities....

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Results of archaeometric analyses (XRD, XRF) of stamped Roman bricks from the South Etruria Survey, conserved at the British School at Rome   

The original author is happy with dissemination of this dataset. Some technical doubts: there isn't a single page describing the entire dataset, just a series of blog posts;...

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Spearheads dataset (from Digging Numbers)    text/csv

The authors of the “Digging Numbers” book included a dataset that contains various measurements and data about 40 spearheads from English archaeological sites. The example data used here...

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