Archaeological and Palaeoecological Reference Collections Online

Archaeological and Palaeoecological Reference Collections Online

ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL

The National Slag Collection - UK, from the Historical Metallurgy Society

CERAMIC

A Guide to the Identification of Spanish Medieval and Later Fabrics

CerAfIm: Céramique Africaine Imprimée 

Tessellations - a (UK) national database of tile designs

The National Roman Fabric Collection: a handbook - UK, from the Museum of London

Worcestershire On-Line Ceramic Database - UK

FUNERARY

TOMBA - Tombs of Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Europe

GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL

Soil Analysis Support System for Archaeology

PALAEOANTHROPOLOGICAL

Homo naledi

PALAEOECOLOGICAL - PLANTS

Carex nutlet project by Jacqui Huntley

Charcoal Analysis Web

Colonial Williamsburg Phytolith Database

Diatom Flora of Britain and Ireland

Digital Plant Atlas

Identifying Firewood in British Deciduous Woods

Inside Wood

Laboratory Guide To Archaeological Plant Remains From Eastern North America - by Gayle Fritz

MU Phytolith Database

PalaeoBot.org - Macrofossils, Pollen, Phytoliths, Starch and Isotopes

Phytolith Core Database

Seeds of Wild Plants of Korea

Seed Herbarium Image Project - Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University

Seed ID Workshop - from Ohio State University

UCL Phytolith Teaching and Research Images

USDA Family Guide for Fruits and Seeds

Willcox Atlas of Archaeobotanical Seeds

Wood Anatomy

The Xylem Database

PALAEOECOLOGICAL - INVERTEBRATES

Hawaiian Marine Shell Reference Collection

Marine Bivalve Shells of the British Isles

National History Museum of Rotterdam Mollusks

Neogene Bryozoa of Britain 

PALAEOECOLOGICAL - VERTEBRATES

Anàlisi de FORmes d'Otòlits (AFORO) - Shape analysis of fish otoliths

Archaeological Fish Resource

Aves 3D - a three dimensional database of avian skeletal morphology

Avian Osteology - from the Royal BC Museum

Fish: Comparative Osteology - from NABO Zooarchaeology Working Group

MCPA2 - Mammalian Crania Photographic Archive

Morphosource - three dimensional scans of various taxa

Osteobase - Web interactive exploration for osteology

Pictorial Skeletal Atlas of Fishes - from Environmental Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History

Skullsite - avian skulls

Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project

PALAEOPATHOLOGICAL

Digitised Diseases

PETROLOGICAL

Stone in Archaeology - UK

VARIOUS

Linnean Society Collections Online - various biological collections

Neotoma Palaeoecology Database

Poggio Civitate Etruscan Excavation Finds Catalogue

Portable Antiquity Scheme Database

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