User:PatHadley/Map of Archaeology/Organization
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Task forces and interest groups
[edit]Related WikiProjects
[edit]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
[edit]- WikiProject Anthropology - Note In North America archaeology is viewed as subsidiary to Anthropology, elsewhere it tends not to be.
- WikiProject Linguistics
- WikiProject Ethnic Groups
- WikiProject Culture - Comment This is a dead WikiProject but perhaps there's scope for a Material Culture group?
- WikiProject History
- WikiProject Military History - Comment One of the most amazingly active and best organised WikiProjects going.
- WikiProject Mythology
- WikiProject Visual arts- Comment There appears not to be an Art History WikiProject
- WikiProject Science
- WikiProject Geology - Comment Another well-organised WikiProject.
- WikiProject Palaeontology
- WikiProject Evolutionary biology
- WikiProject Ecology
- WikiProject Human Genetic History
- WikiProject Sociology
- WikiProject Geography
Regional specialisations
[edit]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
[edit]Asia
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Europe
[edit]- WikiProject Scottish Castles
- WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies
- WikiProject Norse history and culture
Mediterranean and Near East
[edit]- WikiProject Near East
- WikiProject Ancient Egypt
- WikiProject Bible
- WikiProject Dacia
- WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome - Comment How can this have 10,000 articles and we only have 6,000!?!.
- WikiProject Rome
Oceania
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Topic specialisations
[edit]Materials - artefacts and ecofacts
[edit]Theoretical areas
[edit]Presentation of Archaeological Material
[edit]- WikiProject Museums - Comment This also connects to the huge and very relevant GLAMWiki (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) collaborative projects.
Conservation and preservation of sites
[edit]- WikiProject Historic sites
- WikiProject World Heritage Sites
- WikiProject National Register of Historic Places - Comment This is the WikiProject based on the official US list.