Social Sciences

A description of the Department that features news and research. Offers faculty and staff profiles, publications, and links to related sites.

A profile of the Department for prospective students. Features faculty research interests, degree requirements, information on opportunities to study abroad, and contact details. Located in St. Petersburg.

Features general overview, instructor profiles and information on curriculum. Located in Kennesaw.

Provides list of classes, news on current research and curriculum details. Located in Lexington.

Major and minor programs with a concentration in physical anthropology, archaeology or social anthropology. Features course syllabi, faculty profiles and department events. Located in Wellesley.

Offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Features faculty profiles, curricula and special events. Located in Kalamazoo.

Offers an undergraduate degree program. Features faculty profiles, course descriptions and comprehensive examination handouts. Located in Northfield.

Offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Features course listings, class pages and notes.

Offers an undergraduate combined degree program. Features faculty listing and the annual newsletter. Located in Plymouth.

Offers a depiction of Department for prospective students. Features staff profiles, degree requirements, and courses offered. Located in Lakewood.

Offers information on degree requirements, programs of study and current research. Also features profiles of faculty and links to related sites. Located in Greenville.

Offers an undergraduate degree program. Features course descriptions, faculty biographies, events, awards and alumni news. Located in Delaware.

Offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the four sub-fields. Features summer and focus programs and faculty biographies. Located in Philadelphia.

Offers undergraduate degree programs. Features course descriptions, a standard format for research papers and alumni news. Located in San Antonio.

Offers a profile of the Department for current and prospective students, faculty research interests, fieldwork opportunities, and links to related resources. Located in Logan.

Offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Features news, events, faculty profiles, and course descriptions.

Founded in 1849. Excursions, lectures, journal.

Umbrella organization formed to bring together archaeological societies in the county with an interest in history and heritage.

Offers lecture meetings and field trips and publishes the annual journal Contrebis - contents and sample articles online. Includes membership and program details.

Software for converting between dates in the Maya Calendar (long count, tzolkin haab) and dates in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. Allows specification of correlation number and year-bearer system.

A large database of manuscripts from Dunhuang and other parts of Central Asia. Includes a description of the discovery in 1900 of a cave full of ancient manuscripts.

The Virtual Museum of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses is an attempt at a virtual recovery of excavated archaeological finds in cyberspace for ancient relic preservation, archaeology research, and multimedia contents generation.

A report in XNA that a letter written about 2,000 years ago and never delivered has provided evidence of China's oldest post office at a historic site near the famous Dunhuang Mogao Grottos along the ancient Silk Road.

Article in Asian Arts by John Vincent Bellezza concerning a series of pre-Buddhist archaeological sites in the western Tibet province of Ngari.

From Xinhuanet, the lections were piled up in a huge wall that is 60 meterslong and 10 meters high at the Sagya Monastery in Sagya county, roughly 400 kilometers from Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Reviewed by Chris Kostman, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California at Berkeley.

Includes video clips [RealVideo and QuickTime].

Itineraries et description of the most important archaeological sites in the island.

From Guardian Unlimited, in 1222 they had a crisis in Salisbury. Masons were racing ahead raising the walls of the cathedral, but the carpenters were running out of timbers needed for the roof.

Will Lord reproduces prehistoric tools and weaponry, and offers flint knapping demonstrations. Includes details and photos of activities, a diary, and contact information.

Archive of Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, last updated in 2014, held by the Archaeology Data Service.

Encyclopedic entry includes history and archaeology of Old Paphos.

Large excavation in northeastern Israel, led by Professor Amihai Mazar of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem: includes reports, pictures, and volunteer information.

Illustrated historical article.

Organization concerned with anthropology and archaeoology. Publications, membership, activities including annual meeting, directory of area chapter contacts.

The Institute of Minnesota Archaeology describes an exploration of the Upper Mississippi's buried past. Illustrated site reports, photographs, bibliographies.

History of the site known as "Indian Racetrack" in northwestern New Mexico including measurements in an attempt to discover solar alignments.

Encyclopedic entry for an important Pre-Columbian civilization and archaeological site in Bolivia.

From Discover Magazine, in just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism.

Photograph and information about this small circle to the south of the village of Ennerdale Bridge in Cumbria.

Photographs and locations of stone circles and carved stones in Aberdeenshire by George Soja.

Photographic images of standing stones and burial chambers in Wales and Welsh landscapes.

Historic Shipwreck 1942.

Provides the story, which Hitler tried to quash, of the world's deadliest shipwreck.

1906 steamboat recovered after 50 years on the bottom of Minnesota Lake. Restored and now operating on Lake Minnetonka as a nonprofit museum. Unique Streetcar on hull.

In 1855, this vessel was wrecked in a dramatic disaster in Mendocino Harbor, California, which resulted in the loss of three vessels.

Article by Katja Huebner on this screw steamer, wrecked off Point Sur, California in 1894.

Account of the wreck of this brig off Monterey in 1834.

Wikipedia article on this Royal Navy ship of the line which was run aground in 1781 at Culloden Point, Montauk, NY, USA to prevent it falling into the hands of the enemy.

Behavioral neuroscience and cognitive psychology are key areas of the Department of Psychology.