Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology/Organization
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Task forces and interest groups
Related WikiProjects
Archaeology can be connected to EVERYTHING. This is just a beginning but hopefully better organised than Similar WikiProjects. I hope that understanding this might help us tempt editors to lend a hand on relevant overlapping content and lead to better coordinated collaboration.
Other disciplines and relevant sub-disciplines
- WikiProject Anthropology - Note: In North America archaeology is viewed as subsidiary to Anthropology, elsewhere it tends not to be.
- WikiProject History
- WikiProject Science
- WikiProject Human Genetic History
- WikiProject Sociology
- WikiProject Geography
Regional specialisations
Some projects have emerged around topics with long histories of archaeological/antiquarian study. In other regions archaeology and prehistory have been subsumed into the relevant history project.
Africa
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Americas
Asia
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Europe
Mediterranean and Near East
Oceania
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Topic specialisations
Materials - artefacts and ecofacts
Site types
Investigation methods
Theoretical areas
Presentation of Archaeological Material
- WikiProject Museums - This also connects to the huge and very relevant GLAMWiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) collaborative projects.
Conservation and preservation of sites
- WikiProject Historic sites
- WikiProject World Heritage Sites
- WikiProject National Register of Historic Places - This is the WikiProject based on the official US list.