Internet Archaeol.12 - Wace and Condron

The Internet, images, and archaeology: a tutorial

5. Links to online resources

Period-specific resources

We have put together a very small selection of online resources that exhibit a variety of uses of images. When browsing through this list, make notes on the following, so you have an idea of the kinds of problems students may encounter when using multimedia resources online.

technological problems opening pages
choice of images
adequate citing of sources
suitable use of contextual information.

Palaeolithic

Links checked 9 September 2002.

Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D – Shockwave hominid crania (P.L. Walker, E.H. Hagen, Anthropology Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara).
How Humans Evolved – access to part of a multimedia tutorial (R. Boyd, J.B. Silk, WW Norton College Books).
Hominid Time Line – attractive interface to text and still images covering hominid and human evolution (R. Effland, K. Costello, K. Wullstein, Mesa Community College).
Tautavel Man – multimedia presentation on the discovery of Homo erectus in France, and reconstructions (National Museum of Natural History, and CNRS, France).

Aegean Bronze Age, Archaic, Classical, Roman periods

The Beazley Archive – an extensive research collection on Greek sculpture and pottery at the University of Oxford.
NAVIS – an online searchable database of shipping and shipwrecks in the Mediterranean. An international effort (NAVIS project).
Sphakia Survey: the Internet edition – the project explores human interaction with the landscape of south-western Crete, from the late Neolithic to Byzantine, Venetian and Turkish periods. The online edition has a wealth of information, including a searchable database of sites and finds, and teaching resources. (Sphakia Survey Internet Edition, University of Oxford.)
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project – a large Web site devoted to the fieldwork project. It includes a map-entry interface for the online finds and excavation database (this site uses Java, and may not run on Macintoshes; University of Michigan).
Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome – a project from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. Users can choose between still images, Quicktime videos, or interactive virtual reality models.
Patterns of Reconstruction at Pompeii – another IATH project. In particular, look at the final section with its reconstructions (appendix A).
Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins – (Robert W. Cape, Austin College).
Metis QuickTime Virtual Reality – images of ancient Greece (QuickTime; Bruce Hartzler, University of Texas at Austin).

Old Testament resources

Megiddo – Israel. Multimedia excavation report (I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin, B. Halpern, Tel Aviv University).
Scrolls from the Dead Sea – based on an exhibition held at the Library of Congress. This virtual exhibition is hosted by the University of North Carolina.
Another Dead Sea Scroll exhibition – created by a keen amateur, M.A. Hoselton.
The Orion Centre for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature – based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.