National Archeological Database

A computerized communications network from the National Park Service. Includes reports, the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, GIS maps, and permits.
http://www.cast.uark.edu/products/NADB/

Southwest Web Ring

Essays related to southwestern Native American history, pre-history, and contemporary issues. Includes photo galleries of ancient southwest ruins.
http://www.jqjacobs.net/southwest/

Links to the Past: Archeology

Information for the public and professionals from the National Park Service includes illustrated, popular articles or longer reports on sites, indexed by state.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/archeology.htm

1860s Warship May be Salvaged

From the Charlotte Observer, the Army Corps of Engineers has begun an investigation of how to save the remains of the sunken confederate warship CSS Georgia.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4433372.htm

Archeologists Find Buried Slave Plantations in North

From Red and Black, slaveholding plantations are no longer uniquely southern, based on new archaeological discoveries.
http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/05/3e6622bd001c5

Iraqi Treasures to Tour US

From BBC, Baghdad Museum is sending some of its artefacts to the US, months after they were feared lost.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3115803.stm

Solving Hunley Sinking Mystery May be Matter of Time, Experts Say

The Charleston Post and Courier, archaeologists studying the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley say a clue to the sub's sinking may come from the historical fact that the Southern navy and the Northern navy used two sets of clocks to record the time of day
http://www.charleston.net/stories/080803/loc_08hunley.shtml

How long ago was America settled?

From MSNBC, evidence that humans inhabited western Pennsylvania 16,000 years ago is still dividing archaeologists, 30 years after blade tools and materials to make beads were found in a rock shelter.
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/956001.asp

The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, As Amended

Primary historic preservation legislation in the US.
http://www.achp.gov/NHPA.pdf

First,...Recognize That It's a Penny

Report on the "Newark" Ritual Artifacts, they date to the Late Medieval period.
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Altman_Newark.htm

Antiquities Dealer Arrested for Smuggling Iranian Silver Drinking Vessel

An antiquities dealer with offices in New York and Geneva has been arrested for illegally importing an Iranian object, described as 'the most important representation of a griffin in antiquity.'
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11540

Chesapeake and Allegheny Clusters

Secretary of Interior's 1997 Report to Congress on archeological activities undertaken for National Parks in the Northeast Region.
http://www.nps.gov/chal/sp/jar9701.htm

World Heritage Sites in the United States

The National Park Service and US/ICOMOS offer a list of sites of cultural and natural interest already nominated and waiting for review. Criteria for site nominations.
http://www.cr.nps.gov/worldheritage/

Chronology of Southwestern Archaeology

Timelines for both Anasazi Periods and Non-Anasazi Peoples. Includes Chaco Canyon Pueblos.
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/swchron.html

Southwestern Archaeology

Resources for archaeology of this region. Includes Got Caliche? newsletter, contact information for archaeologists, and job listings.
http://www.swanet.org/

Archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest

A brief look at the astronomy of the Anasazi. Includes photographs of the Fajada Butte light-dagger.
http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/People/sw_archaeoastronomy.htm

Archeoastronomy

Seminar series by the Albuquerque Teachers' Institute looking at the practice of astronomy by the native peoples of North America.
http://www.unm.edu/~abqteach/ArcheoCUs/