Archaeology 3110 -- North America
Find Articles: Recommended Archaeology of North America Databases [Full-Text]
Start with these Databases to find articles about North America Archaeology. Note: Use the main Library search on the homepage to find articles from multiple databases.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR provides image and full-text online access to selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary resource which provides indexing to peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and reports. Approximately half of the publications include the full-text.
Find Other Database Content Related to Archaeology of North America [Free Online]
- Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD) [Free Online] The Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD) is a compilation of radiocarbon measurements that indicate the ages of samples primarily from archaeological sites in North America. CARD also includes samples from paleontological and geological contexts.
- Paleoindian Database of the Americas (PIDBA) [Free Online] Provides locational, attribute, and image data on Paleoindian materials (>ca. 10,000 cal yr BP) from all across the Americas.
Find Articles: Finding Major Journal Titles
Find Articles: Finding Major Journal Titles
Examples of journal titles not specific to the Archaeology of the Great Plains but which have relevant content:
Popular Archaeology vs. Scholarly Archaeology
There are many Archaeology sources available that are not geared towards professional audiences. These are called “popular” publications and it is important to be aware when you are using these sources.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Many popular sources are very good but they may not have gone through a rigorous peer review process or have the technical data necessary for your research. Articles are often written by professional writers not professional archaeologists.
Archaeology's Hoaxes, Fakes, and Strange Sites
The Notorious Calaveras Skull -- A practical joke in gold rush California sparks a decades-long scholarly debate and still has believers today.