Maps and Mapping
ADS Guide to Good Practice: CAD
From the Archaeological Data Service, a new guide to good practices, this one by Harrison Eitlejorg II and others.
An Atlas of Paleovegetation
From the Quaternary Environments Network, preliminary land ecosystem maps of the world since the last glacial maximum
Ancient World Mapping Center
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a project "to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies;" more or less a repository for projects involving ancient maps.
Assocation of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors
A professional association assembled in 1978 to encourage the development and dissemination of techniques and methodologies for the "ordered and concise use of visual language for the analysis and presentation of archaeological data".
CAD Guidelines from the CSA
The new CSA CAD Guide for Archaeologists and Architectural Historians, based on more than four years of work from the Center of Center for the Study of Architecture/Archaeology at Bryn Mawr.
Cadastral Survey
Information for the re-surveyor on establishing legal boundaries for property in the US. Site contains a manual, and current sun and polaris ephemerii.
Clay Tablet with a Map of Nippur
Clay tablet, dated 14th-13th century BCE, with a map of the countryside around the city of Nippur, located in the middle of the southern Mesopotamia floodplain, near the modern city of Diwaniyah.
General Land Office
From the US Bureau of Land Management, an online database of information pertaining to original land grants.
Indus Valley Maps
From your About.com Guide to Ancient History, a good collection of ancient maps.
Maguey Plan - Aztec City Map of the 16th Century
The Maguey Plan (Plano en papel de maguey) is the name of a 16th century map of part of a city within the Aztec empire, drawn on paper made of maguey (or agave).
Mesoamerican Geography
From your About.com Guide to Ancient History, a collection of maps for historical Latin American .
Terra Server
Topographic, relief, and photographic maps of the world.
The David Rumsey Collection
A very cool site, this collection uses a GIS browser to overlay historic maps on top of topographic maps in the San Francisco Bay area of California from 1851 to 1926.
Uncovering Jamestown (The American Surveyor)
This pdf of the September 2006 issue of The American Surveyor magazine features mapping techniques used at the Jamestown Recovery Project. By Cori Keeton Pope.