A200: From the Celts to the Vikings
A200: From the Celts to the Vikings
Instructor: Larissa Collier
Librarian: Moira Marsh (molsmith@indiana.edu)
1. Evaluating Web Sites
2. Scholarly or Popular: An Identification Guide
3. OneSearch
Search for books, and academic, trade, or popular articles
Use the filters to refine by subject, type of resource, etc.
Click Add to folder to save/print/download results
3. To find scholarly articles, use Anthropology Plus
- Search just scholarly, peer reviewed articles
- Covers anthropology, archaeology, and related fields
- Use the IULink button to find the article online or to get the call number in our collections
5. Academic Search
- Covers all subjects, including anthropology, archaeology, and history
- Includes both scholarly, trade, and popular articles
- Use the Peer Review button to see scholarly resources only
6. Some useful search topics:
- Iron Age
- Iron Age—Denmark
- Vikings
- Northmen
- Crannog construction
- Grauballe Man
- Bog bodies
7. Some Useful Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of archaeology
- Encyclopedia of dubious archaeology: from Atlantis to the Walam Olum
- Companion encyclopedia of archaeology
- Scandinavian Iron Age (a collection of ebooks from eHRAF Archeology)
- Ancient Europe 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: encyclopedia of the barbarian world in Reference Reading Room, D62 .A52 2004 <
8. Some ebooks:
- Ideology and power in the Viking and Middle Ages: Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney, and the Faeroes
- Landscapes of power, landscapes of conflict: state formation in the south Scandinavian Iron Age
9. Useful links:
Library Assignment:
Scholarly, Trade, or Popular?
Each group will be assigned one of the following articles.Use the links to locate the pdf of your article online. Using the Scholarly vs. Popular Materials Guide, each group will evaluate their article and decide whether it is scholarly, popular, or trade. Write a brief note giving the citation to your article and your evaluation, with reasons.
We will discuss your findings in class next week.
1.Carlson, J. (2011). A symbol -- but of what? Iron Age daggers, Alessi corkscrews and anthropoid embellishment reconsidered. Antiquity, 85(330), 1312-1324.
2.Brunwasser, M. (2012). Burial Customs. Archaeology, 65(5), 24-26.
3.Gidwitz, T. (2007). Evolution of an Empire. Earthwatch Institute Journal, 27(1), 19-21.
4.Thompson, C. (2007). Silver in the Age of Iron and the Orientalizing Economies of Archaic Greece. American Schools Of Oriental Research Newsletter, 57(4), 21-22.
5.Lange, K. E. (2007). Tales from the Bog. National Geographic, 212(3), 80-93.
