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The SEAD project is funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR) under the Database InfraStructure Committee (DISC) as part of a national drive to advance high quality, accessible, scientific research cyberinfrastructures. (Grant number 2007-7494). |
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The SEAD project is hosted by Umeå University. Situated in the center of Northern Sweden (Lat 64°-Long 22°). Its geographical location and position within the administrative capital of the North makes it an ideal place for scientific research and education. In particular, the situation creates a wealth of possibilities for enhancing our understanding of Nordic Archaeology and prehistory throughout Scandinavia and the neighbouring countries. |
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The Environmental Archaeology Lab. has been operating as a National Resource since 1993, and has built up a solid foundation for the scientific study of environmental archaeology. A wide range of sampling equipment is housed at the lab and the staff are skilled in most types of investigation, from research design to final reporting.
The lab is based at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, at Umeå University. |
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HUMlab is an interdisciplinary IT environment on the cutting edge of the digital humanities, and acts as a research network node and skills providor, facilitating communication between the SEAD team and related projects and groups.
For more information please have a look at the HUMlab blog, which explains the HUMlab concept. |
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Data Sources & Contributors |
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The MAL environmental archaeology dataset has been accumulated over 30 years of consultancy and research at the Environmental Archaeology Lab in Umeå, in collaboration with numerous research partners and contractors. The data consist of a wide variety of proxy data from prospection, site analyses, research excavations and experimental farming, among other things. The MAL dataset will form the bulk of the initial SEAD data. |
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BugsCEP is a database, research and teaching aid for palaeoentomology, entomology and ecology. As well as fossil data, modern habitat and distribution data, it includes tools for climate and environmental reconstruction, and facilities for storing site based abundance/collection data. Bugs is built around a comprehensive database of beetle ecology and European fossil records which has been accumulated over the past 20 years.
BugsCEP will be incorporated into SEAD and made available online. |
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The Bibliography of Quaternary Entomology, compiled by
P.C. Buckland, G. R. Coope & J. P. Sadler, will be made available online via the SEAD interface. |
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| PCB Bibliography |
Paul Buckland has made his extensive bibliography of references for archaeology and Quaternary science available for inclusion and distribution through the SEAD interface. |
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| A call for contributions! |
If you would like to contribute to SEAD, either in terms of data or software development, and see your research benefit from an early involvement in the project, then please contact Phil Buckland. |
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| SEAD is currently using in house developers from the Environmental Archaeology Lab and HUMlab. See People for more information. |
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Research Partners & Related Projects |
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Neotoma is a multiproxy database that includes fossil data for the past 5 million years, the time during which modern species, including humans, and modern ecosystems appeared. The initial database aggregates the Global Pollen Database, FAUNMAP, the North American Plant Macrofossil Database, and a fossil beetle database into a single integrated database.
The SEAD project is coordinating with the Neotoma team, and the SEAD project director is an active member of the Neotoma global consortium. |
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QVIZ is a project started in order to bring users a single entry point to the archives of Europe. A common starting point that allows browsing of the archival resources through time and space using a dynamic map or contextual categories.
Members of the QVIS team are working in the SEAD project. |
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| The European Pollen Database |
The European Pollen Database. |
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The Discovery Programme, www.discoveryprogramme.ie, is the Irish institute for advanced archaeological research. It has sponsored and hosted the WODAN project, www.wodan.ie, with funding from the Heritage Council’s Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research (INSTAR) programme. WODAN aims to develop an on-line archaeological wood and charcoal database for Ireland, and work towards the standardization of methodologies with intenational partners. |
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| DATED |
Dated aims to provide accurate digital maps with isochrones of the Eurasian deglaciation pattern to modellers and other researchers, and to facilitate future re-interpretation of the deglaciation pattern, online. |
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