Directory of Portable Antiquities Resources

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Those objects discovered in the course of excavation or other archaeological activity which are removed from the site, otherwise known as finds.

Subcategories

• Ancient Coins
• Ceramics
• Clay Pipes
• Egyptian Mummies
• Epigraphy
• Glass
• Greece
• Stone Tools
• US Civil War
• United Kingdom

Resources in This Category

• An Archaeological Guide to Historic Artifacts of the Upper Sangamon Basin

  http://virtual.parkland.edu/lstelle1/len/archguide/documents/arcguide.htm
  A visual guide by Lenville J. Stelle for those interested in identifying and dating 19th and 20th century artifacts common to the American Midwest.

• Asian American Comparative Collection

  http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/LS/AACC/
  Established in 1982 at the University of Idaho. A type collection and database for 19th and 20th century Asian objects likely to be encountered in North America.

• Homo Faber or Homo Symbolicus

  http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/0108/berggren-copper.html
  Transoxiana 8. The question asked is why beginning in the sixth millennium we find such a fascination with copper jewelry and small axes considering that copper tools are less efficient than those made of stone.

• Portable Antiquities Scheme

  http://www.finds.org.uk/
  A government-backed scheme for the recording of finds in England and Wales. Includes a database containing information on c.9,000 archaeological finds with c.600 images.

• Spanish Colonial Military Artifacts

  http://www.artifacts.org/
  Exhibition and interpretation of ca. 1650-1821 Spanish colonial military artifacts from the former Spanish Floridas and Louisiana. Emphasis is on such uniform-related materials as buttons, buckles, and insignia.

• Spoilheap Archaeology

  http://www.spoilheap.co.uk/
  Illustrated introductions to pottery, burials and human bones from archaeologist Sue Anderson. Also bibliographies and reports on finds from specific sites.

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