5. DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Archaeological Method and Theory: An Encyclopedia.
ed. Linda Ellis, 705 p. (2000). Covers analytical technology, legislation, conservation techniques, and research from prehistoric to contemporary periods. Worldwide coverage.
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Blackwell Encyclopedia of Industrial Archaeology.
ed. Barrie Trinder, 964 p. (1992). Monuments, settlements, and landscapes of 31 countries in Europe, Canada, United States, and Australasia from 1650 to 1950. Bibliography of almost 3,000 sources.
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Cambridge Illustrated History of Archaeology.
ed. Paul Bahn, 386 p. (1996). Explorations of the Middle Ages to the present in eight chapters: archaeology of archaeology; old worlds and new, 1500-1760; antiquarians and explorers, 1760-1820; science and romanticism, 1820-1860; search for human origins, 1860-1920; archaeology comes of age, 1920-1960; new techniques and competing philosophies, 1960-1990, and current controversies and future trends. Chronology of archaeology from 1500 and bibliography. All illustrations are original prints, manuscripts, artistic renderings, and photographs.
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Collins Dictionary of Archaeology.
ed. Paul Bahn, 654 p. (1992). Worldwide. Over 500 pages of short-entry definitions and facts with cross-references. Almost 100 pages of maps and lists of sites. Bibliography by topic. Limited illustrations.
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Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology.
ed. Graeme Barker, 2 vols. = 1219 p. (1999). Twenty-nine essays by individual authors are groups under three headings: origins, aims, and methods; themes and approaches; and writing archaeological history. Each essay includes an extensive list of references and a short "select bibliography." Photographs, drawings, tables, and plans.
Avery Reference N5330 C72
Dictionary of Archaeology.
ed. Ian Shaw and Robert Jameson, 624 p. (1999). Includes short definitions and longer articles on recent archaeological theory and applications with bibliographies of primary and recent sources. Some maps and drawings. China, Japan, and Oceania are covered.
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Dictionary of Concepts in Archaeology.
by Molly Mignon, 364 p. (1993). From adaptation to zooarcheology.
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A Dictionary of Terms and Techniques in Archaeology.
by Sara Champion, 144 p. (1980). Covers terms used in the scientific and technical aspects of archaeology.
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Elsevier's Dictionary of Archaeological Materials and Archaeometry in English with Translations of Terms in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
by Zvi Goffer, 445 p. (1996). Old and New World; origins of civilizations, historical archaeology, 20th-century archaeology. Maps, chronologies/timelines, index.
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Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries.
ed. Tim Murray, 3 vols. (2001). Comprehensive, world-wide coverage including article bibliographies, maps, and illustrations. Index in Vol. 3.
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Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology.
ed. Charles Orser, Jr. 607 p. (2002). International in scope. Signed essays with lists for further reading. Some illustrations.
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Encyclopedia of Underwater and Maritime Archaeology.
ed. James Delgado, 493 p. (1998). Sites from prehistory to the modern era, legislation and legal issues, organizations, research themes, technology, etc. are covered in 450 alphabetically arranged entries. Worldwide coverage, illustrations, and extensive individual bibliographies.
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Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the world.
ed. Paul Oliver, 3 vols.=2384 p. (1997). Vol. 1: Theories and principles; Vol. 2: Cultures and habitats (Asia, East and Central Australasia and Oceania, Europe and Eurasia, Mediterranean and Southwest Asia); Vol. 3: Cultures and habitats (Latin America, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Glossary, Lexicon, Bibliography, Indexes).
Avery Reference AA200 En19
Grove Art Online (an option within Oxford Art Online).
ed. Jane Turner, Covers the prehistorical era to the 1990's with online updates. Includes over 20,000 biographies of artists, collectors, theorists, critics, and scholars. Features extensive survey articles on the cultures and civilizations of the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Australia. The online dictionary has links to images in external websites; interesting sites (people, places, art forms, styles, groups and movements, etc.); and to the Bridgeman Art Library, a comprehensive collection of more than 100,000 images.
Avery Reference N31 D56 (34 volume paper version).
Illustrated Dictionary of Ceramics Defining 3,054 terms Relating to Wares, Materials, Processes, Styles, Patterns, and Shapes from Antiquity to the Present Day.
by George Savage, 319 p. (1985). Ancient to modern potting, painting, and shape terminology. List of European factories and their marks.
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Lexikon des Mittelalters.
The standard encyclopedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Users can perform automatic bibliographic searches in the International Medieval Bibliography Online.
Oxford Classical Dictionary.
ed. by Simon Hornblower and Antony Sprawforth (2002). Covers the Greco-Roman world. It includes articles and definitions regarding literature, art, philosophy, law, biography, mythology, science, geography, daily life, and broad cultural and historical trends.
Oxford Companion to Archaeology.
ed. Brian Fagan, 844 p. (1996). "...covers entire spectrum of human existence" from Australopithecines to modern New York City. All aspects of archaeology from Acheulean tradition to zoology. Signed entries with bibliographies and cross-references. No entries for individual archaeologists, but those mentioned in the text are indexed. Maps and timelines included. Updates and expands the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archaeology (Avery Reference A5333 C14), but lacks its illustrations of artifacts, architectural forms, and art.
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Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium.
ed. Alexander P. Kazhdan (2005). Contains more than 5,000 searchable entries covering all aspects of Byzantine history and civilization from the 4th through the 15th centuries, with special depth in subjects such as bureaucratic titles and fiscal terms, urban life, and rural economy.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt.
ed. Donald B. Redford (2005). Contains 600 entries covering the prehistoric, predynastic, and dynastic phases of ancient Egypt within the context of its contiguous and sometimes conquering neighbors, tracing its history through the Islamic conquest of 642 CE, with the focus on dynastic Egypt. Treats all branches of Egyptology: archaeology, anthropology, architecture, linguistics, literary studies, epigraphy, papyrology, history, art history, religion, economics, ecology, geomorphology, and the life sciences.
Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerica.
ed. by David Carrasco (2006). Chronicles Pre-Hspanic, colonial, and modern Mesoamerica, defined as the lands stretching from Mexico to the southern tip of Central America. With more than 600 articles, it encompasses the civilizations of the Pe-Columbian era (including Olmec, Aztec, and Maya peoples) up through the colonial and postcolonial periods. Treats: art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, history, and historiography of the region in fully cross-referenced, signed articles by the leading scholars in the discipline.
Oxford Islamic Studies online.
Contains more than 3,000 encyclopedia articles as well as primary source documents, maps, images, and timelines. Comprehensive resource for the study of the history, people, politics, and cultures of the Islamic worlds.
Pauly-Wissova. Brill's new Pauly.
Intended as an aid for the study of Greek and Roman culture and its multifaceted presence in all periods of European and, since the Early Modern period, world history. See also paper editions: Kleine-Pauly. 5 vols. (1964-1975) [Avery Fine Arts Reference N 31 P2811]
and Real-Encyclopaedie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft. 60 vols. +15 vol. suppl. (1894-1978) [Avery Fine Arts Refeference N 31 P281] and Index to Suppls. [Avery Fine Arts Reference N31 M95] and Neue Pauly (1996) [Avery Fine Arts Reference N 31 N39] Best known by the editors' names. The standard classical encyclopaedia. Volume 14+ of Neue Pauly (Rezeptions- und Wissenschafts-geschichte) is useful to not only Ancient historians, but also to historians of the Renaissance through the 18th Century.
Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites. (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0006)
ed. Richard Stillwell, 1019 p. (1976). Summaries of excavation results with references to full reports. Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Glossary, maps, map indexes, illustrations.
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