Reference Materials for Writers
Google Translate
A free on-line translator, for plain text or whole web pages. Now includes Japanese, Korean, and Chinese in addition to English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Italian, Portuguese.
Antiquarian Book Dealers on the World Wide Web
Looking for an out of print book? Betcha can find it here!
Antiquity's Notes for Contributors
From the publishers of Antiquity, a list of suggestions for contributors.
Aristarchos
Developed by Girolamo F. De Simone, Aristarchos is a little freeware program that will prove of terrific assistance to researchers, helping to decode references to obscure journals. Can be used in English, Italian, German, French, and Spanish.
Grabungswörterbuch
A terrific German/English and English/German dictionary for technical archaeology terms, from Doris Fischer.
Internet Grammar of English
An on-line course for highschool and university students, it has some uses for the professional writer as well.
Oxley and Morton's Archaeological Buzz Word Generator
A truly ridiculous site which makes fun of the constant drone of jargon you hear from archaeologists
Roget's Thesaurus
The online version of the reference book that drove Peter Mark Roget mad, but has become critical to many writers. 1911 copy
The Dead Media Project
This peculiar web site is dedicated to extinct forms of communication, which are admittedly only of peripheral interest to archaeologists, but interesting none the less.
The Quick MS Word to Web-Based Syllabus
Step-by-step instructions to help academics turn their syllabus into a web-ready document; from Paula Petrik at George Mason University.
The SAA Style Guide
The latest editorial policy and information for authors, from the Society for American Archaeology; you can download the style guide as a .pdf, too, but it isn't on line.
The SHA Style Guide
The entire style guide, in PDF and HTML format both, updated in December 2006.
Thesaurus.com
The webpage says it is the largest thesaurus available on the internet.
Thesis and Dissertation Advisors--On Call
Need help with that dissertation? Want to convert your thesis into a book but don't know how to start? Is English not your first language? This consortium of retired and part-time university faculty promises to give advice to the writer. No ghost-writing.
Tomcsanyi's Archaeological Resource
Free online dictionaries for archaeologists and historians, with an emphasis on Egyptology. The foreign language dictionaries (French to English and German to English) provide context as well as definition. The dictionary of art and archaeology is in English only.
WordNet
An on-line, combination dictionary and thesaurus, from the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University.