GIS, Maps, Modelling and Other Software

  • Archaeological Predictive Modelling Program
  • Archaeological Software (ArchNet)
  • ARC/INFO tutorial
      An introductory course in using ARC-INFO GIS software package.
  • CNET Shareware.com
  • Database and Atlas of Palaeovegetation (Quaternary Environments Network)
  • Faunmap (Illinois State Museum)
  • GIS Guide to Good Practice
  • Global Land Environments Since the Last Interglacial
  • INSITE (University of Bristol)  
      Computer-based reconstructions of archaeological sites.
  • Internet Resources for Paleoenvironmental Scientists (National Geophysical Data Center)
  • Introduction to Imaging (Getty Institute)
  • La Milpa, Belize:  A Large Maya City 400 B.C.--A.D. 830
      Offers archaeological and environmental GIS data, photographs, a flight simulator and also maps and images of an ancient Maya city that are available for downloading.
  • Little Salt Spring Underwater Archaeology Project (Southwestern Florida)
          Uses "digital video mosaicking".
  • Map Collection (Perry-Castañeda Library)
  • Map Libraries, GIS, and Mapping Software (ArchNet)
  • Mapas Project - Mesoamerican ManuscriptsNew
          The Mapas Project focuses on the digitization and study of colonial Mesoamerican pictorial manuscripts. The term "mapa" was used loosely in New Spain to refer to pictorials that may or may not have had a cartographic dimension, but often showed the territories or landscapes of indigenous communities.
  • Quantitative & Computer-using Archaeologists (and other resources)
  • Remote Sensing Archeology Research at NASA
  • Teaching and Learning Technology Programme: Archaeology Consortium
  • ViSta - The Visual Statistics System
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