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Selected Archaeology, Anthropology, and History Links
General UWF Student Links / Writing / Journals / Archives / Organizations / Miscellaneous
Note: All links below open a new browser window.
UWF Libraries
UWF Library Catalog: Advanced Search Page (see also the Combined Catalog of the State University Libraries of Florida and WebLuis (Library User Information Service for the State University System of Florida)
UWF Anthropology & affiliated academic programs
UWF Department of Anthropology
Anthropology BA Requirements (.pdf) / Anthropology undergraduate courses (ANT)
Anthropology MA Requirements (.pdf) / Anthropology graduate courses (ANG)
History courses (undergraduate and graduate) - HIS / AMH / LAH / EUH
University of West Florida (general)
Current UWF catalog / UWF Current Course Offering Search
Full UWF course listings and descriptions
UWF Thesis and Dissertation Information
Pensacola Weather
UWF Campus Weather Station (Weather Underground)
Pensacola Forecast (National Weather Service)
Pensacola-area Radar (National Weather Service)
National Hurricane Center (National Weather Service)
Dictionaries & General Writing Resources
Oxford English Dictionary (English-English)
Real Academia Espanola (Spanish-Spanish; use top search box on the right)
SpanishDict.com (Spanish-English/English-Spanish)
Babylon (Spanish-English/English-Spanish, and many others)
Nuevo Tesoro Lexografico de la Lengua Espanola (historical Spanish dictionaries, including the early 18th-century Diccionario de Autoridades; click search button at top left, then enter search term in box entitled "Lema")
Scholarly Abbreviations (definitions for Latin abbreviations used in scholarly writing)
Ultimate Cool Characters (comprehensive list of codes for inserting foreign language symbols in documents, or see below)
(my own printable short-list of common colonial Spanish character codes)
Style Guides
AAA (American Anthropological Association) Style Guide
SAA (Society for American Archaeology) Style Guide
SHA (Society for Historical Archaeology) Style Guide
Turabian Style Guide (overview at the University of Georgia libraries)
JSTOR Journals
Other online journals with all or mostly free access
The Florida Anthropologist / Advanced Search
Florida Historical Quarterly (main page with search and browse features)
Southeastern Archaeology (tables of contents ONLY for all issues between 1982 and 2006)
Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (1989-2008)
Current Anthropology (current issues)
Tequesta (main page with search and browse features)
Portal de Revistas Cientificas Complutenses (online Spanish journals of science and humanities, fully searchable; based in Madrid)
Please note that I have developed detailed instructions for first-time users of several of the most important Spanish archival websites (with indices of primary sources and online document imagery), which can be found on my Primer on Using Online Colonial Spanish Archival Sites. I will continue to add to this site as new online archival sites become available.
Spanish Colonial Archival Repositories
Portal de Archivos Espanoles (inventory and search engine, including extensive digitalized document imagery from the Archivo General de Indias and many other Spanish archives; see the appropriate section of my Primer on Using Online Colonial Spanish Archival Sites for detailed instructions on how to utilize this important website)
Bancroft Library Guide to the Archivo General de Indias (well-organized finding aid to AGI materials in the Bancroft collections, with brief text descriptions of each document in their holdings)
Biblioteca Nacional: Inventario General de Manuscritos (complete listing of manuscript collections in PDF format)
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica (searchable image database from the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid, with several Florida maps)
Archivo General Militar de Madrid (descriptive listing of documentation available at what is also commonly cited as the Servicio Historico Militar; includes extensive colonial map collections; no online images are available)
Institucion Colombina (web page, including searchable catalog, for the various libraries and archives associated with the Archbishopric of Seville, and the Cathedral of Seville; includes the surviving original library of Christopher Columbus and his son Fernando)
Fototeca: Sección Planimetría (digital images of early 20th-century photographs of architectural plans from the Archivo General de Indias; maintained by the Laboratory of Art of the University of Seville in their Fototeca, which includes a wide range of other imagery including some other handwritten colonial documents).
Archivo General de la Nacion (main page of the Mexico City archive, which includes a fully searchable Guide to holdings; see the appropriate section of my Primer on Using Online Colonial Spanish Archival Sites for detailed instructions on how to utilize this important website).
Archivo Franciscano de la Biblioteca Nacional (online listing of a card index to this archive, searchable only by card number; Franciscan province of Santo Evangelio)
Documentary Relations of the Southwest (searchable database of archival sources; includes some Florida references)
Archivo Nacional de la Republica de Cuba (main page of the Havana archive, with only general text inventories of holdings; see 5-page Guide describing date range and contents each archival section relative to the colonial period)
Archivo General de Centro América (main page of the archive in Guatemala, with only general information on holdings)
Ecclesiastical Sources for Slave Societies, Vanderbilt Univ. (extensive digital imagery of original ecclesiastical documents in Cuba)
P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History (includes searchable calendar of holdings for the East Florida Papers and Papeles de Cuba)
Special Collections Department, John C. Pace Library, UWF (main page, which includes a Guide to holdings)
Maps and Land Records
Florida General Land Office Records (digital imagery of early Florida land plats and field notes, searchable by Township and Range)
Spanish Land Grants in Florida (digitized records relative to early land grants in Florida, from the State Archives of Florida)
Florida Map Collections (large database of map images from the Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida)
Historic Maps of Florida (high-resolution digital images of many historical maps from Florida and elsewhere; part of the David Rumsey Map Collection, soon to be housed at Stanford University)
Old Florida Maps (a nice selection of historic Florida map images, grouped chronologically; hosted by the University of Miami Libraries)
Historic Florida Maps (a chronologically-ordered selection of Florida maps from a website for social studies teachers)
Aerial Photography Florida (online digital imagery of historic USDA aerial photos dating as early as the 1930s; hosted by UF's Smathers Libraries; also see GIS interface)
Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Project (searchable NOAA database with digital images of OCS coastal charts from the 18th-20th centuries; modern charts available here)
Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection, Univ. of Georgia (extensive online imagery)
Library of Congress Map Collections (extensive online imagery, hosted at the American Memory site)
Archival Materials (an excellent and extensive collection of digitized maps and texts from the colonial Southeast, maintained by Vin Steponaitis at UNC Chapel Hill; contains Early Maps of the American South, including the complete Crown Collection of Photographs of American Maps).
Selections from the d'Anville Collection, Bibliothèque Nationale (good selection of online French colonial map imagery, linked from the Library of Congress, Global Gateway)
Inventory of the Louis Charles Karpinski Collection (a detailed inventory of an extensive colonial map collection dating from 1500-1799; the original map copies from diverse archives are located in the Huntington Library, San Marino, California)
Miscellaneous
American Memory (the searchable Library of Congress website with a range of historical resources)
Archivos Digitales (a great listing of online digital archival collections in many languages; hosted by the Spanish-language site Archivistica.net)
Early Americas Digital Archive: Web Gateway (an excellent selection of online texts from a variety of different sources)
American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement (a collection of online translations and transcriptions, sponsored by the Wisconsin Historical Society; includes some Florida sources, many from older translations)
University of Florida Digital Collections (links to a variety of online digital archival material)
PALMM (main page of the "Publication of Archival Library and Museum Materials" site for Florida libraries, including a wide variety of sources from historical texts and maps to mid-20th-century aerial photo series)
LABINS (Land Boundary Information System for the state of Florida; includes digital USGS topographic maps for the entire state; also see map interface)
National Geodetic Survey Datasheet Page (search engines leading to detailed elevation information for tidal and terrestrial benchmarks, searchable by latitude/longitude, USGS quad sheet, PID number, and by map interface)
Smithsonian Collections Search Center (search engine for a wide range of texts and images on file at various Smithsonian repositories, including DeSoto Expedition Commission materials, etc.)
Pensacola Area
West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc.
Florida
Florida Anthropological Society
Florida Public Archaeology Network (for students, here are driving directions from the University of West Florida campus, from Google Maps)
Florida Archaeological Council
Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research / Staff Contact List
Florida Museum of Natural History (including Digital Type Collection of Historic Period Archaeological Ceramics and online St. Augustine Exhibition)
Alabama
Center for Archaeological Studies, University of South Alabama
Alabama Archaeological Society
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Georgia
Society for Georgia Archaeology
Georgia Council of Professional Archaeologists
Georgia Archaeological Site Files
Georgia Historic Preservation Division
Regional / National
Southeast Archaeological Center
Southeastern Archaeological Conference
Society for Historical Archaeology
Society for American Archaeology
Register of Professional Archaeologists
American Anthropological Association
University Presses
Louisiana State University Press
University Press of Mississippi
University of North Carolina Press
Ecclesiastical Calendar Calulator (reliable site to calculate historical dates for Easter, as well as a table showing the related dates for other important Catholic feast days, which were commonly used instead of numerical dates in historical texts from the Spanish colonial era)
Patron Saints Index (comprehensive and easily-navigated site with information on Roman Catholic saints, whose feast days were commonly used instead of numerical dates in historical texts from the Spanish colonial era)
La legislación colonial española de Indias (good site in Spanish with historical details regarding legislation in the New World, including the full facsimile text of the Recopilacion de Leyes de los Reynos de las Indias de 1680)
Convert-me.com (good source for modern unit conversions, including a few generalized "Old Spanish" measures such as Distance and Length and Area).
ExploreSeville.com (excellent site in English detailing many facets of life in Seville, from hotels and food to sightseeing and festivals)
Southeastern Archaeology News (very current and comprehensive news relating to Southeastern U.S. archaeology; maintained by David Allison, Atlanta)
