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Improving article connections

The following are all Wikipedia-based page-elements that will often improve archaeology articles.

The auto-generated category of templates with the Archaeology Project tag - -usefully presents them alphabetically.

General

• Template:Archaeology

Related disciplines

• • Template:Anthropology
  • Template:Social sciences
  • Template:Chronology

Citation

• Template:Cite PastScape - For citing the English Heritage
  database of sites and monuments.

Infoboxes

Cultures

• Template:Infobox archaeological culture
• Template:Ancient Near East topics

Sites

• Template:Infobox ancient site

Artifacts

• Template:Infobox artifact

Periods

• • Template:Stone Age
    • Template:Paleolithic
    • Template:Middle Stone Age
    • Template:Mesolithic
    • Template:Neolithic
  • Template:Chalcolithic
  • Template:Bronze Age
  • Template:Iron Age

Periods, cultures, sites (footer templates)

• Template:Three-age system

Cultures

Asia

• Template:Ancient Mesopotamia topics
• Template:Prehistoric cultures of China

Americas

• Template:Pre-Columbian
• Template:Hopewellian peoples
• Template:Fort Ancient culture
• Template:Coles Creek and Plum Bayou cultures
• Template:Adena culture

Europe

• Template:Greek Macedonia
• Template:Scandinavian Scotland
• Template:European megaliths
• Template:Prehistoric Western Isles
• Template:Timeline of Historical Scandinavia

Technology, ideas, theory

• Template:Archaeological Theory
  • Template:Prehistoric technology

Regional Site/Monument Registers

National World Heritage Sites

• Category:World Heritage Site templates

Europe

• Template:History and Archaeology of Gibraltar
• Template:SwissArchaeologicalSites

Asia

• Template:Archaeological sites in Lebanon

India

• Template:Archaeological sites in India
• Template:Archaeological sites and monuments in Karnataka

Africa

• Template:Archaeological sites in Kenya
• Template:Archaeological sites in Nigeria

North America

USA

• Category:National Register of Historic Places templates - State/County level templates. Some states have archaeology-specific templates.

South America

• Template:Archaeological sites in Peru
• Template:Archaeological sites in Colombia

Stub

• Template:Archaeology-stub
  • Template:Archaeology-book-stub

Regional

• Template:Europe-archaeology-stub
  • Template:UK-archaeology-stub
    • Template:UK-archaeologist-stub
  • Template:Italy-archaeology-stub
• Template:SouthAm-archaeology-stub
• Template:Africa-archaeology-stub
  • Template:SouthAfrica-archaeologist-stub
• Template:Asia-archaeology-stub
  • Template:CAsia-archaeology-stub
    • Template:PRChina-archaeology-stub
  • Template:NEast-archaeology-stub
    • Template:Israel-archaeology-stub
    • Template:Turkey-archaeology-stub

Topics

Archaeology Museums

• Template:Archaeology museums in China
• Template:Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology
• Template:National Archaeological Museum of Athens

Marine archaeology

• Template:Western Australian Shipwrecks Database

Userboxes

• Template:User WikiProject Archaeology
• Template:User Degree Archaeology/History
• Template:User FavSub Archaeology
• Template:User Archaeology expert

Sources for information

• Wikipedia:Reference desk - help from other editors
• Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library - enormous resource: external experts, library resources, accounts with journals

The following links all go to external sites with information useful for researching and referencing archaeology articles.

Open Access Journals

This external site maintains a searchable directory of Open Access archaeology journals that can be sorted by region, period and so on.

• Open Access Archaeology

Other Journals

A frequently updated, complete list of archaeology journals.

• The Archaeology Data Service - UK
• Scottish Archaeology Research Framework - Detailed information on Scottish Archaeology

Worldwide

• The World Archaeological Congress

Europe

• European Association of Archaeologists

North America

• The Archaeological Institute of America
• The Society for American Archaeology

United Kingdom

• British Archaeological Jobs and Resources
• Cadw
• Chartered Institute for Archaeologists
• Council for Britisn Archaeology
• Historic England
• Historic Environment Scotland