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• - Exhibition and interpretation of ca. 1650-1821 Spanish colonial military artifacts from the former Spanish Floridas and Louisiana. Emphasis is on such uniform-related materials as buttons, buckles, and insignia.
  
• - CBA guide to portable antiquities, metal detecting and archaeology.
  
• - E-Museum's collection includes descriptions of a variety of North American projectile point types and pottery, South American pottery, and select Asian, African, and European artifacts.
  
• - A registered charity which promotes research into beads world-wide, using archaeological, ethnographic and scientific techniques. Newsletter, publications.
  
• - Transoxiana 8. The question asked is why beginning in the sixth millennium we find such a fascination with copper jewelry and small axes considering that copper tools are less efficient than those made of stone.
  
• - General purpose thesaurus of archaeological object types. Provided by the MDA Archaeological Objects Thesaurus Working Party.
  
• - Illustrated introductions to pottery, burials and human bones from archaeologist Sue Anderson. Also bibliographies and reports on finds from specific sites.
  
• - Parks Canada Archaeology's laboratory methods are explained.
  
• - A visual guide by Lenville J. Stelle for those interested in identifying and dating 19th and 20th century artifacts common to the American Midwest.
  
• - University of Cincinnati Department of Classics presents this searchable database of slides of coins, pottery and sculpture of ancient cultures of Europe, Egypt and the Near East.
  
• - Established in 1982 at the University of Idaho. A type collection and database for 19th and 20th century Asian objects likely to be encountered in North America.
  
• - A government-backed scheme for the recording of finds in England and Wales. Includes a database containing information on c.9,000 archaeological finds with c.600 images.
  
• - Descriptions and examples of British Colonial artifacts. Includes Chinese export porcelain, English Creamware and earthenware, coarse terracotta, kaolin pipes, glass, and metal.