12. GEOGRAPHICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
Atlases and Gazetteers
Ancient World Mapping Center. (http://www.unc.edu/awmc/)
"The Ancient World Mapping Center exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies. The Home page communicates knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, its subject." With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2006-2007), the Ancient World Mapping Center has undertaken a major initiative to develop a functioning, international community of scholars, teachers, students and enthusiasts to collaborate in the updating and expansion of the spatial and historical reference information assembled by the Classical Atlas Project. To underpin these efforts, the Center is developing a web-based, multi-lingual, spatially-enabled community support system, built using open-source software and made freely available for reuse by other projects.
Atlas of world archaeology ed. by Paul G. Bahn (2000)
[Avery Fine Arts N5135 At65]
Barrington atlas of the Greek and Roman world ed. by Richard J.A. Talbert. (2000) 1 vol. atlas, 2 vol. directory, and CD-ROM
ed. Richard J.A. Talbert, 3 vol. (1383 p.) (2000) Created by the Classical Atlas Project (now, the Ancient World Mapping Center (http://www.unc.edu/awmc/)), Barrington atlas should be useful to anyone with an interest in ancient Greeks and Romans, the lands they penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they encountered in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia.
[Avery Reference AA260 B27. Double Folio (FF) Atlas behind Ref. Desk, CD-ROM in Microform Cabinet]
Columbia Gazetteer of the World. (Online)
[behind Avery Reference Desk] (1998)
Names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.
New York City Atlases and Landbooks. (Online bibliography: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/nyc_atlases.html) (Path: Libraryweb -- Libraries -- Avery Library -- Subject Guides -- New York City Atlases and Landbooks)
A chronologically arranged list of Atlases and Landbooks from 1852 to date.
Shepherd, William Robert. Shepherd's Historical Atlas. (1973)
[Avery Fine Arts Reference N 300 Sh41 behind Ref. Desk]
Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. Comprehensive 11th ed. (2003)
[Avery Reference AA 948 T48113 Folio - behind Ref. Desk]
United Nations Cartographic Section. (Online)
Maps and geographic data.
World Atlas Online. (Online)
Guidebooks
Baedecker's Handbook[s] for Travellers.
[Avail. in Paper and also on Avery Microfiche FX3 1378]
(Search in CLIO: Baedeckers as title) Guidebooks for cities, regions & countries prior to W. W. II.
Touring Club Italiano. Guida d'Italia.
(Search in CLIO: Guida d'Italia as title)
An example of currently published guidebooks to cities, regions and countries after World War II.
Topographical Inventories
Dehio, Georg. Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. many vols. (1964 to date)
[Avery AA 1061 D361...]
Example of a currently published topographical inventory of man-made monuments.
Pevsner, Nicolas. Buildings of England. many vols. (1951 to date)
[Avery AA 964 to AA 969]
(Look in card catalog and CLIO under this series title.)
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.
[Avery Reference AA31 P93]
Society of Architectural Historians. Buildings of the United States. (1993 to date)
(Search in CLIO by this series title)
Inspired by Pevsner's series, the U.S. is now publishing a North American equivalent, state by state.
Traulos, Joannes N. Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens. (1971)
[Avery Reference AA 280 T69]
Topographical Indexes
Orbis Latinus: Lexikon Lateinischer Geographischer Namen. (1971)
[Avery Reference N 29 Latin (on language dictionary shelves)]
Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae. Ed. by Eva Margareta Steinby. (1993 to date)
[Avery Reference AA 320 L59]
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