Historic Maps of Tyrone and other Towns around Lamoka
A while ago, I posted about the New York Public Library’s Map Warper project, which is making thousands of historic…
Intro to Zooarchaeology and More Free Books
Publisher Springer has temporarily made hundreds of textbooks available to download for free during the coronavirus pandemic. For archaeologists, there’s…
Academic Publishers Make Resources Available to Cope with COVID-19
The Penn Libraries have assembled a list of academic publishers who are making educational resources more readily available for researchers…
Smithsonian Open Access Program: Martha
To celebrate the Smithsonian Institution’s formal announcement of its Open Access program, which makes almost 3 million digital images and…
Another Passenger Pigeon in England
There are two passenger pigeons at Horniman Museum in London. This one is in Birmingham. Even better, the Birmingham Museums…
Free Books from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Several archaeology books from the backlist at the Cotsen Institute at UCLA are available for free download: An Archaeologist’s Guide…
Medieval Arms at the Cleveland Art Museum
The Cleveland Museum of Art has just made over 30,000 images from their collections available for reuse under a creative…
Irish Folklore Collected by Schoolchildren in the 1930s
In the 1930s, schoolchildren in Ireland set out to write down local folklore, history, and mythology, like the story…
Zooarchaeology for Free: Antiquity’s Online Collection
Pet cats, hunting dogs, and underwater mammoths: the journal Antiquity has assembled a group of recent zooarchaeology articles and made…
Free for All: The Vermont Archaeological Society and the Journal of Vermont Archaeology
The Vermont Archaeological Society is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, and they have not only made pdfs of their journal…