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- Alaska Anthropological Association - Promotes public awareness and education of anthropological activities and goal, and fosters sympathetic appreciation of the past and present cultures of Alaskan people.
- Anthropology Student Union - Organization serves the needs and interests of undergraduate and graduate students, provides forum and encourages communication.
- H-Sae - Independent consortium of scholars provides discussion on anthropology in Europe.
- Royal Anthropological Institute - Association promotes public understanding of anthropology, and its contribution to public affairs.
- School for Advanced Research - Provides dynamic environment for study about human culture, evolution, history, and creative expression.
- Society for Medical Anthropology - Informs the general public and policy-makers of the scope and breadth of medical anthropology.
- Wenner-Gren Foundation - Supports anthropological research into humanity’s biological and cultural origins and international community of research scholars.
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Archaeoastronomy
- Aboriginal Star Knowledge - Features the San Francisco exploration links, and astronomy education, magazines, resources and guides.
- Ancient Observatories - Introduces Chaco Canyon, features observations, tools through time and sun stories, and details seasons plus alignments, time, and resources.
- Lecture Timetable for Second Semester - Contains list of lectures on astronomy in prehistoric Britain, Ireland, and Europe, and world arhaeoastronomy.
- Archaeo-astronomical hypotheses on some ligurian engravings - Presents illustrations on the engraves and hypothesis about the alignments and bearings of Ligurian engraves.
- Archaeoastronomy - Includes speculation about the astronomical significance of megaliths, investigations, and approaches.
- Thinkquest - Archaeoastronomy - Study helps find out more about species' history of the interaction with the cosmos, and presents sectional articles, forum and quizzes.
- Cloudbait Observatory - Archaeoastronomy - Studies stars and presents history of heavens, elements of true science, and historic astronomical significance of different places.
- ArchaeoAstronomy - Interview with David Dearborn - Discusses the reasons why people study astronomy and the things used to determine a particular structure and its astronomical component.
- Aztec Astronomy and Observation of Nature - Discusses the solar alignment and Aztec calendar, observations, calendrical systems and cycles.
- BBC World Service - Stargazers of Ancient Egypt - Presents interview and explanation of the significance on the Great Pyramid as master of precision, Spence theory, and dating the pyramids.
- Big Dipper Little Dipper Stone - Presents pictures of a stone with big dipper image, star charts, and the Indian legend about the big dipper.
- Carving the Cosmos - Discussion and explanation on the petroglyphs, horizontal shadow, movements, sky chart and figure interpretations.
- Chevalier's ASTR 341 - Details syllabus, skywatching, homework, reviews, paper, sample problems, bibliography, course notes and announcements.
- Cultural Astronomy - Explores culture that have observed the heavens, phenomena, and ways of observations on the sky into people's daily lives.
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Mayan
- Dating the Eclipse Table of the Dresden Code - Discusses the exploration of the Maya culture, decoding the hieroglyphs, and the GMT correlation.
- Maya Astronomy - Features geographical orientation, Maya mathematics, calendar, writing and astronomy, pictures, and links.
- The Maya Calendar - Introduction to Maya systems of counting and dates, correlation problems, and year bearer systems.
- Caribe Mexicano: Mayan Calendar - Introduces Mayan's calendar represented with a hieroglyphic system of points and bars where a point equals one, a bar equals five and a snail is zero.
- Mesoamerican Archaeoastronomy - Paper is an inquiry to the present level of knowledge of astronomy in prehistoric Mesoamerica and astronomic knowledge.
- Real Maya Prophecies - Contains astronomy in the inscriptions and codices, astronomical symbols, calendar, and myths.
- Southernmost Rise of Venus at Uxmal - Documentation and photographs on the renewal of the grand cycle of Venus' patterns and insight to the architectural philosophy of the Mayan structures.
- Sun key to Mayan misery? - Analysis on the drought which appear to have followed a cycle determined by the sun that matches to the sediment sample and tree rings.
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Archaeobotany
- Archaeobotany Lab. - Research group deals with plant remains, reconstructing past human diet, mode of existence, environment, landscape, and economy.
- Archaeobotany - Lesson Plan for Grades 4–5 and 8 - Helps identify seven seeds and conditions, infer ancient plant use, and determine changing plants.
- Bibliography - Ethnobotany and Paleoethnobotany - Contains authors, references, list of scientific and common names, tribes or arhcaeologically named cultures, and subject groupings.
- Florida Museum of Natural History - Archaeobotany Collections - Collection houses plant and macrobotanical remains, and contains comparative seeds and woods from various localities.
- Bucket Flotation Procedures to Recover Archaeobotanical Remains - Outline is used as guide to safe and efficient recovery of waterlogged plant remains from typical shipwreck deposits like from ceramic containers.
- Review of the Archaeological Evidence for Food Plants from the British Isles - Features plant remains of the British Isles, interactive distribution maps, database, and data.
- Vegetation History and Archaeobotany - Publishes research papers, review articles and short contributions in the field of vegetation history.
- Çatalhöyük - Archaeobotany and Related Plant Studies - Investigates temporal and spatial patterns of plant remain preservation and plant use in South Area.
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Archaeometry
- Thetis Authentics Ltd - Offers products and services based on the application of scientific methods and techniques to cultural heritage.
- Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor - Specializes in trace-element analysis of archaeological specimens and uses analytical techniques.
- Archives of Ach-Metals Group - Contains list of issues, discussion room, surveys and files area.
- Berkeley Archaeological XRF Lab - Provides access to analysis of archaeological and source standard obsidian on a per-sample basis, and training to undergraduate and graduate students.
- Scientific Heritage Journal - Contains subject matters such as dating, materials or artifact characterization, and new technologies applies to historical heritage preservation and restoration.
- Society for Archaeological Sciences - Establishes forum for communication through bulletin, and annual conferences, and represents disciplines to archaeological sciences.
- Ancient Metallurgy Research Group - Encourages investigations into all areas of ancient and historical metallurgy, develops relevant themes, and promotes archaeometallurgical research.
- Material Science-Based Archaeology Group - Investigates of all aspects of the metallurgical process, and explores the place of metals in ancient economies and societies.
- Heritage and Archaeology Liaison Office - Provides expertise and support on synchrotron techniques, and studies the adaptation of SOLEIL equipment for synchrotron techniques of research.
- Physics and Archaeology - Features discoveries on how the human character has evolved from pre-human origins, radiocarbon dating, magnetism, and archaeological prospecting.
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Bioarchaeology
- Ancient DNA may be misleading scientists - Origin of the skeleton analysis shows damage in a particular region, resulting in misleading genetic data and mistaken conclusions.
- Haemotaphonomy - Includes definitions, kind of residues present, process of occurrence, implications, and characteristics.
- Medici Project - Studies on 49 tombs of some of the Medici family members that involves discipline like paleopathology, funerary archeology, parasitology, histology and identification of ancient pathogens.
- South Dakota Paleopathology - Facilitates exchange of information about skeletal pathology and builds paleopathology database.
- Ancient Ancestor had tummy bug too - Explains the stomach-infesting bacterium called Helicobacter pylori present in biopsies from urban group of Europe and Amazonian group.
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Gender
- Archaeology of Gender Syllabus - Presents requirements, rereading, and raise to consciousness on the centrality of the concept of ender for archeology.
- Exploring Gender Through Archaeology - Discusses gender, women's participation in American prehistoric Archaeology, images, social differences, and workshops.
- Women's Studies Program - Program organizes yearly all-women on the rapids trips and offers courses that balance theory and activism, humanities and social sciences.
- How a Feminist Stance Improves Archaeology - Introduces androcentrism, places interests of men in the center, and pointed out dichotomy between genders.
- Images of Women in Ancient Art - Issues of Interpretation and Identity - Provides resources about images and artifacts of women including Venus of Willendorf, Menkaure and queen, the Minoans, Eve, various goddesses and Celtic women.
- Warrior Women of Eurasia - Known to ancient Greek authors as Amazons were long thought to be creatures of myth.
- Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt - Includes map and chronology of ancient Egypt, interpretive essays on each topic, and a complete inventory of items in the exhibition.
- Women in the Ancient Near East - Study of women focuses on awareness of social history and features scholarly literature, and bibliography.
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Geoarchaeology
- Archaeological Prospection - Informs on scientific techniques, encourages discussion and risk analysis studies, promotes investigations for cultural heritage, and provides forum.
- Carolina Bay Geoarchaeology and Holocene Landscape - Concludes significant modification on rim development and basin infilling, ponds, climate and fluvial-centric models.
- Charles McBurney Laboratory for Geoarchaeology - Offers decipherment of past landscapes, and micro-interpretation of the use of space.
- Directory - Archaeological Geology and Geoarchaeology - Initiates and maintains this valuable guide that contain individual listing, and information on programs.
- Geoarchaeology - Presents work at the methodological and theoretical interface between archaeology and the earth sciences.
- Geoarchaeology in Iowa - Find artifacts and features buried at varying depths beneath the ground surface.
- Geoarcheology in the Georgia Bight - Studies reefs' existence above sea level during geologic time and foundations for studies.
- Geoarchaeology, Indiana State University - Gives information on the use of geoscience methods and techniques, and research focus in Anthropology and Geography.
- BSc or HBSc Geoarchaeology - Program represents the application of geographical and geological concepts and aids interpretation on the archaeological record of ancient human societies.
- Geoarchaeology Interest Group - Advances science of geoarchaeology, sponsors symposium and annual meetings, organizes short courses, and assists in educating future geoarchaeologists.
- BSc GeoArchaeology - Delivers flexible program of study, encourages development of independent learning skills, develops subject knowledge and understanding, and provides educational opportunities.
- University of Oregon Archaeological Field School - Provides entire range of projectile points from Clovis to Desert Side-Notch points.
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- CalPal Radiocarbon Calibration - Quick reference contains program that detail results, graphical output and different 14C calibration methods.
- How Carbon-14 Dating Works - Examines the methods by which scientists uses radioactivity to determine the age of object.
- Informath - Contains peer-reviewed publications, short tutorials, and links.
- Radiocarbon WEB-info - Resource provides information concerning the radiocarbon dating method, publications, applications, and calculations.
- Carbon clock could show the wrong time - Discusses carbon dating and cycles, galactic and solar cosmic rays, and fundamental changes.
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- School of Canadian Studies, Carleton University - Conducts research, provides information on complex issues and concerns confronting Canada, and offers interdisciplinary programs.
- McGill Institute for the Study of Canada - Provides students with comprehensive multidisciplinary view of the nature and growth of Canada.
- Kentucky-Canadian Studies Association - Provides information on course offerings, campus-based and parliamentary internship programs, annual meeting and conferences.
- Japanese Association for Canadian Studies - Details activity, chronology, annual reviews, membership application, conferences, and publications.
- Canadian Studies, University of Victoria - Program studies academic disciplines of Canada, encourages communication and assists in English or French language skills development.
- Canadian Studies, Western Michigan University - Area of emphasis includes New France, migration and borderlines, and transnational environmental and resource issues.
- Canadian Studies, David M. Kennedy Center - Provides course dealing with Canada in the social sciences and humanities that ranges from literature and theater to foreign policy and geography.
- Center for Canadian Studies, University of Leeds - Focuses on Canada’s domestic profile and experience, research and teaching, and dissemination of academic activities and opportunities.
- SFU Center for Canadian Studies - Promotes study and understanding of Canada from cultural, social, political and economic perspective, and emphasizes historical context and contemporaneous development.
- Central Europe Association for Canadian Studies - Operates on the basis of its Constitution and provides information on current activities, organizations, memberships, and publications.
- Center for North American Studies - Offers courses for undergraduate and graduate students, undertakes research on North American issues, and provides educational experiments.
- Western Washington University, Center for Canadian American Studies - Offers undergraduate academic program, provides major requirements, and details scholarships and internships, events and exchanges.
- Canadian Studies Specialty - Provides list of courses, academic information, student services, preparatory programs, and application requirements.
- Glendon Canadian Studies - Understands country in its history, political and legal systems, languages and cultures, geographical locations and unique features.
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Directories
- Conlang Yellow Pages - List includes all constructed languages, and personal, fictional and experimental conlangs.
- ConScript Directory - Gallery of invented writing systems and intelligent, artistic creation exists in context of fictional settings.
- Constructed Human Languages - Conlang directory presents list of entries like artistic, personal, fiction, and historical context.
- Yamada Language Guides - Definitive guide to language resource contains font archive, annotated list of language-related news groups, and links to mailing lists.
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- Basic English and Grammatical Reform - Details technical approach, directional thinking, spelling reform, syntax, translation and reduction.
- Ogden’s Basic English - Shortened list for learning spelling and pronunciation irregularities includes rules, word list, examples and basics.
- Simplified Technical English - International specification for writing aerospace and defense documentation used in commercial and military projects worldwide.
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- Geyinzi - Alternative way to write Mandarin Chinese where tone is based on bopomofo. Plus initials, finals, tone indication, numerals and translations.
- Shavian Alphabet - Writing system for English includes notable features, alphabet and translations, abbreviations and sample texts.
- Tyl-Sjok An Artificial Isolating Human Language - Artificial language with mono and bi-syllabic items, and each word stands by itself and cannot be modified.
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Qualitative
- Arteology or the Science of Artifacts - Helps make artifacts by gathering theory of designs, usability, function, meaning, value and safety.
- Bobbi A. Kerlins - Learning technology coordinator conducts workshops, assists with the design and implementation of electronic courses, and promotes teaching integration.
- Writing Guides Content Analysis - Guide introduces content analysis within wide range of texts, and includes samples and key terms.
- International Institute for Qualitative Methodology - Interdisciplinary institute on the development of qualitative research methods features research, publications, conferences and workshops.
- International Network for Social Network Analysis - Non-profit organization in social network analysis publishes news, articles, abstracts and book reviews, and sponsors annual conference.
- Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - Qualitative approach explores an individual’s personal perception or account of an event or state.
- Assessment and Development of New Methods for the Analysis of Media Content - Project explores and tests computer software packages for media content analysis, and includes training element.
- CiteSeer - Focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science, and improves dissemination and feedback of the scientific literature.
- TAPoR: Text-Analysis Portal for Research - Builds human and computing infrastructure for text analysis, and serves as portal for tools in analysis and retrieval.
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Tools
- ResearchWare - Tool enables coding and retrieving, building theories and conducting analysis of data.
- Semantic-Knowledge - Accelerates reading date, analyzes in-depth and objectively, extracts relevant information, and classifies structure information automatically.
- Social Science Automation - Specializes in the development of software tools and customized coding schemes.
- Sphinx Development - Provides clients with advanced methods and techniques for survey design and analysis, and creates user-friendly software.
- Swedish Morphological Society - Organization develops and disseminates knowledge on the scientific use of morphological analysis, its theory and practice.
- Lothar Rostek - Researcher develops tool for information retrieval and automatic indexing, object-oriented systems, and knowledge representations.
- Text Analysis Computing Tools - Text-analysis and retrieval system for MS-DOS permits inquiries on text databases.
- TextGrab - Command line program is a tool for the content analysis that copies text files from a web site to the hard disk.
- TextPack - Text analysis tool supports content analysis, assists user in exploring and editing texts, and contains special-purpose procedures for categorizing, classifying and tagging.
- T-Lab - Software consists of linguistic and statistical tool that helps extract, compare and map the contents of different kinds of texts.
- TextQuest - Application includes coding of responses of open-ended questions, and content, readability, vocabulary and style analysis.
- Tosmana - Free software tool for small-n analysis to perform social science research on data sets with a small number of cases.
- Transana - Software is open source that analyzes and manages data, identifies, creates collection and arranges clips, and assigns keywords.
- Tams Analyzer - Open source package used for textual themes analysis, digital media transcribing, and conducting of discourse analysis.
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Survey
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research - Archives of social science data from surveys of public opinion fosters international understanding and promotes cross-national research.
- Software to choose between Sampling Probabilities Plans - Available for research projects, educational purposes and preparatory legwork of surveys.
- Center for Survey Research - Provides advice on surveys and analysis, collects survey data using computer-assisted-telephone-interviewing system, and reports preparation and data analysis.
- Survey Design Tips - Includes planning, organizing, constructing questions, and documentation.
- Survey Instruments in Information Systems - Provides researcher with actual survey instruments and helps measure constructs in IS by providing pointers to quantitatively oriented instruments.
- Social Sciences Data Collection - Helps user identify numeric data computer readable formats, acquires data for library's collections, and provides common user-interface to data files and documentation.
- Survey Research Center - Provides assistance on research design, data collection and analysis, and interpreting statistical results.
- Data Archive Services - Includes data catalog, public data poll database, data holdings, vital statistics, and project data.
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Organizations_and_Associations
- Association for Research in Personality - Scientific organization understands personality processes, structure, dynamics and development.
- International Society for the Study of Individual Differences - Fosters research in temperament, intelligence, attitudes and abilities, and investigates individual differences relevant to measurement, dynamics and biological bases.
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology - Generates and disseminates research in personality and social psychology, and features publication, annual conferences, membership information and awards.
- Society for Personality Assessment - Advances science and practice, develops test and methods, and promotes ethical and responsible personality assessment.
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- Aggressive Behavior - Publishes manuscripts, papers, review articles, and empirical and theoretical articles on behaviors.
- European Association of Personality Psychology - Journal emphasizes human individuality, individual differences, studies of intelligence, and personality differences.
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology Review - Publishes original theoretical papers and conceptual review articles, serves as forum and includes special issues, symposia, and manuscripts.
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - Emphasizes empirical reports, theoretical, methodological and review papers.
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin - Provides forum and disseminates original empirical papers, and publishes debate and controversy, contemporary topics and thematic issues.
- Telos Publications - Presents book list, training resources, ordering information, and links.
- 16types.com - Organization provides tools for professional application and helps individual in understanding and applying personality differences.
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Color
- ColorQuiz - Test studies how color affects behavior, and identifies emotional responses and how people feel on current emotional state.
- Luscher Color Test - Provides information on conscious and unconscious psychological structure of individual, areas of psychic stress and state of glandular balance.
- What's Your Favorite Color? - Contains color preference that provides different meaning and significance.
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Directories
- Barbarian’s Test Page - Contains listing of tests on intelligence, personality, relationship, and fun tests and quizzes.
- Megapsy - Provides test to help people explore facets of personalities.
- Personality Tests - Presents listing of tests for IQ, emotional intelligence, fun, entrepreneur, and aptitude.
- Personalityresearch.org - Tests - Links to personality tests that provide feedback, research programs, and psychopathology.
- Self-network - Tests for the mind, body, spirit and love life, mood analysis, personality and IQ.
- SimilarMinds.com - Focuses on exploring personal and models and test structures, and provides list of links to personality testing.
- University of Life - Directory for IQ, personality, career, computer, EQ, health and love tests.
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Reviews
- Death Wish - Freud and Darwin views death that creates and confirms value rather than destroys it, and sees death as an organizing principle of life.
- Darwin's Worms - Adam Phillips examines influential thinkers of the modern age, Darwin and Freud, stories on implications and consequences, and insights about death.
- Debunking DNA - Natural selection of forms best adapted to propagate within the physical surroundings.
- Descartes' prisoners - Review on the behaviorist-inspired training for the students of biology and psychology.
- It Ain't Necessarily So - Selection of book reviews on philosophy, history, and politics of biology.
- Ethics of the Sand Pile - Review on the new law of nature and its applications, unifying science, and dialect of nation.
- Evolution and Human Origins - Essay review on understanding human emotions, motivations and experiences, modularity, language and meta-cognition.
- Consciousness - Reviews blockbuster movies, production values, images, and approach to factual interpretations.
- Evolutionary psychology – The Ultimate Origins of Human Behavior - Contains overview, issues and information on Darwinian theory and its synthesis with genetics and applications.
- Prophets, Cults and Madness - Discusses Schizophrenia, the strong influence of genetics in its etiology, problem on limited historical understanding, and language.
- From Brains to Consciousness - Essay review on the attempts of science to connect with philosophical concepts such as consciousness.
- Fruit fly genetics - Review on the category of biologists, new evolution of thinking, and genetic differences.
- Earth Song - Essay review on the imagery of Gaia and theory, and Darwinian’s imagery of selfish genes.
- Swashbuckling into the Nebulous Future - Directed on the mutation and use of in vitro fertilization and human race.
- Human Diversity - Discusses differences between people and the biological bases, and explanation on the realities of human biological diversity.
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