Archaeology

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The largest collection of social science books on campus can be found in the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. Search catalog to identify books and find call numbers.

The Museums Library Anthropology Collection has books on the archaeology of North and South America. The Museums Library is in the Museum of Natural History building. All Museums Library books and journals are in Library Catalog Search.

Buhr Remote Storage Facility houses many of the older and less-used books. Use Get This to have books delivered from Buhr, or you can visit Buhr in person.

You may find this easy to use for finding books or journals if you already have an author or title. Reserves: If you’re looking for a list of items on reserve for a class, try searching for the items in the course reserve catalog in Mirlyn Classic, upper right-hand corner

WorldCat is a world-wide library catalog. Over 62 million records describing books, periodicals, sound recordings, videos, musical scores, archival materials, maps, electronic resources, and much more, in over 400 different languages. Shows what materials are held by over 57,000 libraries worldwide

Collection of full-text books and articles on archaeology. Search functions allow for comparative studies within and across regions. Contains overviews by experts and descriptive materials on several sites for each major tradition covered.
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eHRAF World Cultures (formerly HRAF Collection of Ethnography) is a full-text database of ethnographies of 150 of the world's cultures. Materials are subject-indexed at the paragraph level to allow cross-referencing by subject and ethnic group, but the database also allows keyword searching. eHRAF is complemented by a microfiche collection that includes a larger number of cultures. The fiche set is in the Graduate Library Serials/Microfilms Department: HRAF AW60
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A massive digital library bringing together materials digitized by Google, Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and 80 HathiTrust partner university libraries. Includes searchable access to over 10 million volumes, with full text access to about 27% of these materials (over 2.5 million volumes).

Guide to the most popular e-book collections in U-M Library.