User:PatHadley/Map of 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 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

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

• WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
• WikiProject Mesoamerica

Asia

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Europe

• WikiProject Scottish Castles
• WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies
• WikiProject Norse history and culture

Mediterranean and Near East

• 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

Materials - artefacts and ecofacts

• WikiProject Metalworking
• WikiProject Woodworking
• WikiProject Numismatics
• WikiProject Soil

Theoretical areas

• WikiProject Death

Presentation of Archaeological Material

• 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

• WikiProject Historic sites
  • WikiProject World Heritage Sites
  • WikiProject National Register of Historic Places - Comment This is the WikiProject based on the official US list.

Wikipedia-specific content

• WikiProject Time
• WikiProject Timelines
• WikiProject Historical Atlas