Archaeology: A Guide to Library Research: Site Reports

Site reports are core sources of archaeological excavation. They provide the nuts and bolts of excavation sites, features and artifacts found. These sources include the location and size of an archaeological site, its chronological placement, the extent of the excavation, architecture, floor plans, artifacts, drawings and photographs. They also include the quantities and types of artifacts found. This allows other archaeologists to make comparisons and interpretations of the past. Site reports are published a monographs, e.g., Tell Sabi Abyad, as chapters in edited books, or as articles in journals.

To find Site Reports published as books or monographs in our catalog use the following words as a Subject Heading:

Excavations Archaeology (insert name of country OR site name) -- for example, Excavations Archaeology Mexico

and/or

(insert name of country OR site name OR people) antiquities-- for example, Aztecs  Antiquities or Mexico City (Mexico) Antiquities.

New York State Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)
Provides access to New York State's historic and cultural resource databases and now digitized paper records. CRIS provides users with access to more than 1.5 million pages of digital images including, National Register documents, building and archaeological inventory forms and survey reports and a wide variety of additional legacy data.

Setting up an account is required for access to the database and digitized material.