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Internet Archaeology

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Internet Archaeology is an independent, fully refereed academic online journal, which is published by the Council for British Archaeology and hosted by the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. The journal was founded in 1995 and publishes international research that utilise the potential of electronic publication. As well as the recently purchased Internet Archaeology Archive 1996-2006 JISC Collections has purchased a licence to Internet Archaeology through to the end of 2012 on behalf of UK higher and further education institutions, which means they can now have access to rich multimedia scholarly content completely free of charge. Not just for the study of archaeology, the articles and multimedia content from this resource can be used across a wide range of subject disciplines from the biological and earth sciences to the performing arts and history. We have purchased a three-year licence to Internet Archaeology on behalf of UK Higher and Further Education institutions, and Research Councils. There is no cost to institutions.

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Subject Areas

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Science, Engineering and Technology

As well as archaeology and anthropology, this resource will be of interest to researchers in ICT, history, classics, biology, geography, environmental studies, social sciences, medicine and the performing arts.

Academic Levels

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • Research
  • AS/A Level / Scottish Higher National
  • Diploma

Use in the classroom Articles within Internet Archaeology can be used as source material in the following archaeology university modules: archaeological computing, archaeological fieldwork, methodology and practice, managing interpreting and analysing archaeological data, landscape archaeology, environmental archaeology, maritime archaeology, interpretation and analysis of archaeological materials, zooarchaeology, archaeology, art and representation, heritage management, public archaeology, museum studies, material culture, settlement and economy. And for the following units on the AQA AS/A2 Archaeology syllabus: survey and excavation (sources and methods), post-excavation, dating and interpretation (techniques and methods), settlement and social organisation, material culture, technology and economics.

Resource Types

  • digital images
  • archive resources with updates
  • scientific data
  • online journals
  • research materials

Further information

This resource is updated yearly.

Issues are published twice a year.