Open Access Journal: Zograf

Zograf
ISSN: 0350-1361

Subject: history, archeology and ethnology; other humanitiesAll issues

•   2011
  • Issue 35
•   2010
  • Issue 34
•   2009
  • Issue 33
•   2008
  • Issue 32
•   2006-2007
  • Issue 31
•   2004-2005
  • Issue 30
•   2002-2003
  • Issue 29

List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies

Open Access Archives: Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University Library

Having most relevance for research in Archaeology, History, Politics and Travel, the books and papers of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) were given to Newcastle University Library by Gertrude's half-sister, Lady Richmond, although part of the Doughty-Wylie correspondence came from St. Anthony's College, Oxford. They are under the care of the Special Collections department, which can be contacted at: lib-specenq@ncl.ac.uk.


The Gertrude Bell Collection comprises books on Arabic and Persian languages and on the histories of Arabia, and the Near and Middle East which were formerly part of Gertrude's working library. These can be found in the Library's online catalogue.

The Papers
The Gertrude Bell Papers comprise Gertrude's personal correspondence, diaries and miscellaneous items, such as Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia (1920), notebooks, obituaries, lecture notes and miscellaneous reports, memoranda and cuttings. Circa. 1,600 letters and diaries covering the years 1877-1879 and 1893-1900 (with some gaps reflecting where we do not have the hard-copy diary) can be found transcribed on this website, along with c.7,000 of her archaeological and travel photographs. (The photographic portion of the Gertrude Bell archive is administered by the School of Historical Studies.) Neither letters to and from army officer Charles Doughty-Wylie (written 1913-1915) nor any of the Miscellaneous materials have been transcribed although a handlist to the Miscellaneous part of the collection is available


Gertrude Bell (1868-1926)
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born into a wealthy family at Washington New Hall in what was then County Durham. Initially home-schooled, she then attended school in London and graduated with a first-class degree in Modern History from Oxford University. Thereafter she travelled in Europe and also spent several months in Bucharest and in Tehran. Her travels continued with two round-the-world trips: one in 1897-1898 and one in 1902-1903.


From the turn of the century, Gertrude developed a love of the Arab peoples - she learned their languages, investigated their archaeological sites and travelled deep into the desert. This intimate knowledge of the country and its tribes made her a target of British Intelligence recruitment during the First World War. At the end of the war, Gertrude focussed on the future of Mesopotamia and was to become a powerful force in Iraqi politics, becoming a kingmaker when her preferred choice, Faisal (son of Husain, the Sharif of Mecca and King of the Hijaz) was crowned King of the state of Iraq in August 1921.


Gertrude's first love remained archaeology and, as Honorary Director of Antiquities in Iraq, she established the Iraq Museum in Baghdad. Her 1905 expedition through the Syrian Desert to Asia Minor was published as The Desert and the Sown and her study, in 1907, of Binbirkilise on the Kara Dag mountain was published as The Thousand and One Churches and remains the standard work on early Byzantine architecture in Anatolia.

Photographs

Diaries

Letters

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You might also find T. E. Lawrence Studies interesting.

Croatian Open Access Archaeology Journals

[First posted on AWOL on 1/22/09, updated 30 November May 2012]

Hrcak: Portal of scientific journals of Croatia 

Acta Turistica Nova ISSN:1846-4394

Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti u Dubrovniku ISSN:1330-0598

Annales Instituti Archaeologici ISSN:1845-4046

Archaeologica Adriatica ISSN:1846-4807

Asseria ISSN:1334-2479

Biblical Perspectives ISSN:1330-1497

Building and Stone-masonry ISSN:0353-7897

Bulletin of the International Association for Paleodontology e-ISSN:1846-6273

Contributions of Institute of Archaeology in Zagreb ISSN:1330-0644

Cris: Journal of the Historical Society of Križevci ISSN:1332-2567

Dubrovnik Annals ISSN:1331-3878

Historical Contributions ISSN:0351-9767

Histria antiqua ISSN:1331-4270

Histria archaeologica ISSN:0350-6320

HISTRIA The Istrian Historical Society Review ISSN:1848-1183

Holon e-ISSN:1848-3518

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems ISSN:1334-4676 e-ISSN:1334-4676

Journal - Institute of Croatian History ISSN:0353-295X

Journal of Dalmatian archaeology and history ISSN:1845-7789

Journal of the Zagreb Archaeological Museum ISSN:0350-7165

Media, Culture and Public Relations ISSN:1333-6371

Opuscula Archaeologica Papers of the Department of Archaeology ISSN:0473-0992

Podravina: scientific multidisciplinary research journal ISSN:1333-5286

Portal, the Yearbook of the Croatian Conservation Institute

Povijesni zbornik: godišnjak za kulturu i povijesno nasljeđe ISSN:1846-3819

Radovi / Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zadar ISSN:1330-0474

Starohrvatska prosvjeta ISSN:0351-4536

The Museum Courier. Organ of the Museums of Northwestern Croatia ISSN:0350-9370

The Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Croatia ISSN:0350-2589

The Review of Senj ISSN:0582-673X

The Yearbook of the Varaždin City Museum ISSN:0351-7926

All told, the Hrčak portal serves:

• Journals: 320
• Issues: 6735
• Articles without full text: 5182
• Articles with full text: 85212

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Open Access Egyptology from Waseda University

 [Originally posted 6/10/10.  Most recently updated 25 April 2013]

Institute of Archaeology, Waseda University, Tokyo
Publications

MONOGRAPHS

• Series of Studies in Egyptian Culture
  No.1 The Excavations at Malkata-south 1972-1980, 1985
  No.2 The Human Mummies from the 1983 Excavations at Qurna, Egypt, 1985
  No.3 Das Sanktuar Amenophis, III im Luxor-Tempel, 1986
  No.4 Ancient Human Mummies from Qurna, Egypt, 1986
  No.5 The Architecture of “Kom el Samak” at Malkata-south -A Study of Architectural Restoration-,
  1986
  No.6 Non-Destructive Pyramid Investigation(1) -By Electromagnetic Wave Method-, 1987
  No.7 Ancient Human Mummies from Qurna, Egypt II, 1988
  No.8 Non-Destructive Pyramid Investigation(2), 1988
  No.9 Monitoring Plan and Practical Design Concept for the Restoration of the Great Sphinx through the First International Symposium on the Great Sphinx towards Global Treatment of the Sphinx, Cairo, 29 February-3 March 1992, 1992
  No.10 A Survey of the Tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Pictorial Report, 2000
  
• The First International Symposium on the Application of Modern Technology to Archaeological Explorations at the Giza Necropolis - The Substance of Speech, 1987
• Comparative Studies of Noble Tombs in Theban Necropolis - Tomb Nos. 8, 38, 39, 48, 50, 54, 57, 63, 64, 66, 74, 78, 89, 90, 91, 107, 120, 139, 147, 151, 181, 201, 253, 295, 1988

• Conservation of the Wall Paintings in the Royal Tomb of Amenophis III -First and Second Phases Report-, 2004
  
• Excavating in Egypt for 40 years Waseda University Expedition 1966-2006: A Special Exhibition of Japanese archaeological discoveries in Egypt in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, 2009

PRELIMINARY REPORTS OF THE EXCAVATIONS

• Abusir South
  ‘Waseda University Excavations at North Saqqara: A Preliminary Report on the First Three Seasons,
     December 1991 – September 1993’, 1997 (link to Journal Archive)
  ‘Waseda University Excavations at North Saqqara: A Preliminary Report on the Fourth to Sixth
     Seasons, August 1995 – September 1997’, 1999 (link to Journal Archive)
  ‘Waseda University Excavations in Egypt and Recent Works at North Saqqara,’ in Hawass, Z. (ed.),
     Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century, vol. 1, Cairo, 2003
  ‘A Sacred Hillside at Northwest Saqqara: A Preliminary Report on the Excavations 2001-2003,’
     MDAIK 61, 2005.
  ‘Neue Entdeckungen im Nordwesten Sakkaras, Eine Grabkapelle aus dem Neuen Reich und das Grab
     der Isisnofret,’ Sokar 19, 2009.
  
• Dahshur North
  ‘Preliminary Report of the General Survey at Dahshur North, Egypt’, 1997
  ‘Preliminary Report of Excavations at Dahshur North, Egypt-1st and 2nd Field Seasons-’, 1998
  ‘Preliminary Report of Excavations at Dahshur North, Egypt-3rd Field Season-’, 1998
  ‘Preliminary Report of Excavations at Dahshur North, Egypt,-4th-6th Field Seasons, 2000
  ‘Preliminary Report of Excavations at Dahshur North, Egypt,-7th Field Season, 2001
  ‘Preliminary Report of the Waseda University Excavations at Dahshur North-10th Season-, 2005

Khufu's Second Boat
Leaflet of the project

Journal

 エジプト学研究 - The Journal of Egyptian Studies 

Open Access Journal: Aphrodisias Newsletter

Aphrodisias Newsletter

Aphrodisias is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek and Roman periods in Turkey. The city was famous in antiquity for its cult of Aphrodite and for its marble sculptors. It enjoyed a long, prosperous existence from the second century BCE through the sixth century CE, and its buildings, marble sculpture, and public inscriptions are remarkably well preserved. The excavations document the social history and visual culture of an ancient city in unusually fine detail.

The site has been investigated systematically by the NYU project since 1961, first under the direction of the late Professor Kenan Erim, and since 1991 that of Professor R.R.R. Smith. The current project focuses on the recording and conservation of previously excavated monuments, on establishing permanent systems for the documentation and conservation, and on targeted new excavations – as well as on scientific research and publication.

NYU Excavations at Aphrodisias are sponsored by the Institute of Fine Arts in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU and receives invaluable support from private individuals, foundations, and corporations.

	2011-2012 Newsletter [PDF]
	2010-2011 Newsletter [PDF]
	2009-2010 Newsletter [PDF]
	2008-2009 Newsletter [PDF]
	2007-2008 Newsletter [PDF]
	2006-2007 Newsletter [PDF]

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Open Access Journal: Starinar

Starinar
ISSN 0350-0241

The website "Starinar" contains the online version of this journal published by the Archaeological Institute in Belgrade and accessible on the web pages of the National Library of Serbia. The journal is published annually and is dedicated to the archaeological studies in Serbia and the neighbouring countries with direct relevance to Serbian past, with studies ranging from Palaeolithic to Roman times and early Christianity. On this website only the issues from 2002 to 2006 were available at the time of cataloguing, although "Starinar" was first published in 1950. The issues can be browsed by tables of contents, which list all the titles in English. The research studies and articles however can be in Serbian, English, German, French or Italian. Files are in PDF format, which can be downloaded or read online; the site also offers the option of emailing the articles. The site offers no information about the editorial board and policy of the journal; similarly, the usual submission guidelines for authors are not available. [Description from Intut

All issues

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Open Access Journal: Fornvännen

Fornvännen

Fornvännen är Sveriges äldsta, största och ledande tidskrift då det gäller antikvarisk forskning och har Nordens största recensionsavdelning inom ämnet. Utgivningen startade 1906. I Fornvännen publicerar sig den skandinaviska arkeologins och medeltidsforskningens främsta experter. Fornvännens artiklar är skrivna på svenska, ibland också på danska eller norska, men från 1925 finns bildtexter och sammanfattningar på engelska eller tyska. I äldre årgångar förekommer det att artiklar på engelska eller tyska har en svensk sammanfattning. I senare årgångar får icke engelskspråkiga artiklar en summary på engelska. Läs mer om Fornvännens historia i artiklarna som vi länkat till nedan.

Fornvännen is the leading journal for antiquarian research in Sweden. It is also the oldest and most widely distributed journal, with the largest review section in the subject field in Scandinavia. Publication started in 1906. The leading Scandinavian experts in archaeology and Medieval research are published in Fornvännen.
The articles in Fornvännen are written mainly in Swedish, sometimes in Danish, Norwegian, English and German. From 1925 there are abstracts and picture headings in English or German. In later issues non-English articles are provided with a Summary in English.

Senaste nummer

1906-1909

1910-1919

1920-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

2000-2009

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Open Access Syrian Archaeology

n.b.: The Studia Orontica server is unresponsive in April 2013 - fortunately there is a version of the site in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine here. In the hope that the server will return, I retain the original links below. 

The website of Studia Orontica provides open access to

Studia Orontica (six volumes available - already cited in AWOL)

Les Annales Archeologiques Arabes Syriennes (AAAS)

VOL XL VII - XL VIII
(table of contents)

Vol. XLIX-L Arabic | English
(Full text)

and to a program of exhibition, and the catalogues of those exhibitions:

	The 2008 Programe
Men and Women from Syria the Neolithic Art Pioneers	When men made stones for gods.	Les premiers chariots de l'Antiquite
Luxurious Object for Women		Tradition funéraire syrienne

Open Access Journal: Revue archéologique du Centre de la France

Revue archéologique du Centre de la France
ISSN: 0220-6617
EISSN: 19516207
Publisher: Fédération pour l’édition de la Revue archéologique du Centre de la France

La Revue archéologique du Centre de la France est l’une des six revues archéologiques interrégionales qui couvrent le territoire métropolitain ; son ressort géographique concerne les régions Auvergne, Centre et Île-de-France, ainsi que le département de la Loire (région Rhône-Alpes). Elle couvre l’archéologie de toutes les périodes, depuis la Préhistoire la plus ancienne jusqu’à l’archéologie industrielle et des Temps Modernes, la majorité des contributions portant sur la Protohistoire, la période gallo-romaine et le Moyen Âge.

Numéros en texte intégral

• Tome 47 | 2008
• Tome 45-46 | 2006-2007
• Tome 44 | 2005
• Tome 43 | 2004

Les Suppléments à la RACF

• Dernière parution : supplément n°34
• Supplément n°33
• Supplément n°32
• Supplément n°31
• Supplément n°30

Open Access Book: A history of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1882-1942, an intercollegiate project

A history of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1882-1942; an intercollegiate project.

Author:Louis E Lord

Publisher: Cambridge, Pub. for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens [by] Harvard Univ. Press, 1947.

Description: xiv, 417 p. illus. 23 cm

ISBN: 9780876619032

The following is the text of the history of the ASCSA between its foundation and 1942, written by Louis E. Lord. It was first published on behalf of the School in 1947 by Harvard University Press. A scanned PDF (43.2 MB) of the whole volume, complete with page numbers and images, is available for free download. The book (ISBN 9780876619032) is out of print. Because the text below was rekeyed from a printed copy, please be alert for errors. If you spot errors, we would be grateful if you could let us know.

Preface

Chapter I: The Founding of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Chairmanship of John Williams White of Harvard University, 1881–1887

Chapter II: The Chairmanship of Thomas Day Seymour of Yale University, 1887–1901

Chapter III: The Chairmanship of James Rignall Wheeler of Columbia University, 1901–1918

Chapter IV: The Chairmanship of Edward Capps of Princeton University, 1918–1939

Appendix I: The First Year of the School at Athens, by Harold N. Fowler

Appendix II: How I Became a Captain in the Greek Army, by Walter Miller

Appendix III: Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1882–1940

Appendix IV: Publications of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1882–1941



Appendix V: Special Endowment Funds of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Appendix VI: Directory of Trustees, Managing Committee, Faculty and Students,1882–1942

A New Project: Digital Antiquity

Archaeoinformatics.org has changed into Digital Antiquity.

In a series of announcements over the past week, Digital Antiquity has made its presence known:

... Digital Antiquity will establish a financially and socially sustainable, national/international, on-line digital repository that is able to provide preservation, discovery, and access for data and documents produced by archaeological projects. The repository, known as tDAR (for "the Digital Archaeological Record") encompasses documents and data derived from ongoing research (more than 50,000 field projects are conducted in the US each year) as well as legacy data collected through more than a century of archaeological research in the Americas. With the active participation of the discipline, this initiative has the potential to transform the practice of archaeology and to revolutionize our knowledge of the past by enabling synthetic and comparative research on a scale that has heretofore been impossible.

With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funding, Digital Antiquity will support a full-time Executive Director (search in progress), two software engineers, a data curator, and clerical staff (all to be hired as soon as the Executive Director is on-board). The Executive Director's management of Digital Antiquity is overseen by a 12 member Board of Directors and informed by a distinguished external Science Board of professionals in archaeology and computer and information science. Digital Antiquity is currently housed at Arizona State University, as a collaborative effort with the University of Arkansas, the Pennsylvania State University, the SRI Foundation, Washington State University, and the University of York...

They are searching for a full-time Executive Director, and will hire two software engineers, a data curator, and clerical staff as soon as the Executive Director is on-board.

The Digital Antiquity wiki will be very interesting to watch, especially if they deploy a news feed.

And see also the Archaeology of the Americas Digital Monograph Initiative, as well as Charles Watkinson's comments on both.