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Archaeology on the World Wide Web: a user's field-guide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sara Champion
Sara Champion*
Affiliation:
Department of Adult Continuing Educatiozn, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England. [email protected]
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Using the World Wide Web is not unlike visiting an unfamiliar place to look at the archaeology. You want to know if there is anything interesting to see, so you start in the library, looking for information; you read books and articles from journals; perhaps you contact colleagues who can tell you about the place; you want to know how to find the sites and to get to them; and once you are there, you want to visit the museums as well as the monuments, and to locate people who are working there, whether they are from academic institutions, government archaeological bodies or local societies. You will want to check that access arrangements have not changed since the last published information; you also want to ensure that as far as possible the information you have is accurate, so that you do not waste time looking at sites which are not relevant to your interests.

Type
Special review section: Electronic archaeology
Information
Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997 , pp. 1027 - 1038
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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References

Chippindale, C., 1996. Editorial, Antiquity 70: 237–44.Google Scholar