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The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) is an international digital repository for the digital records of archaeological investigations. tDAR's use, development, and maintenance are governed by Digital Antiquity, an organization dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation of irreplaceable archaeological data and to broadening the access ...
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
ARK is based on the LAMP stack and MapServer, and is free software released under the GNU GPL. [4] It was developed by L-P Archaeology, a British commercial archaeology practice. [5] [6] The Fasti Online project was built using an ARK back-end, and demonstrates its usage beyond normal archaeological recording. [7]
Screenshot of the IADB. The Integrated Archaeological Database system, or IADB, is an open-source web-based application designed to address the data management requirements throughout the lifespan of archaeological excavation projects, from initial excavation recording, through post-excavation analysis and research to eventual dissemination and archiving.
The following entries cover events related to the study of archaeology which occurred in the listed year. Further information: List of archaeological excavations by date 1600s - 1700s - 1800s - 1900s - 2000s
Overview map of the peopling of the world by anatomically modern humans (numbers indicate dates in thousands of years ago [kya]). This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens).
Written records tend to provide more socio-political insight into the dominant nations, and hence allow categorization according to the ruling empires and cultures, such as Hellenistic, Roman, Viking. Inevitably these definitions of periods only relate to the region of that empire or culture.
Each county or unitary authority in the United Kingdom maintains a sites and monuments record or SMR, consisting of a list of known archaeological sites. Many SMRs are now developing into much broader historic environment records (HERs), including information on historic buildings and designed landscapes. Each record lists the location, type ...