User:PatHadley/Map of Archaeology/Organization

=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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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