Dictionaries and encyclopedias for archaeology
Use encyclopedias:
- for summaries
- for lists of further reading
- when starting a project
Some useful titles are listed below. Find more on Unicorn by searching for "archaeology and encyclopedias".
There are two key online resources which give access to hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias:
Useful reference works for art: selected titles
Atlas of the Greek and Roman world in antiquity
Middle Folio--911.3-ATL
Blackwell encyclopedia of industrial archaeology
2nd Floor Reference--609.003-BLA
Cambridge encyclopedia of archaeology
4th Floor Reference--913-CAM
Collins dictionary of archaeology
4th Floor Reference--913.03-COL
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic tradition
4th Floor Reference--938.003-ENC
Encyclopedia of historical archaeology
913.03-ENC
Encyclopedia of archaeology
4th Floor Reference--913.03-ENC
Handbook for British and Irish archaeology
4th Floor Reference--913.016-LAN
Superb listing of all types of sources and resources
Medieval archaeology: an encyclopedia
4th Floor Reference--913.03-MED
Oxford companion to archaeology
4th Floor Reference--913.03-OXF
Oxford encyclopaedia of archaeology in the Near East Folio--913.94-OXF
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