SEAD is a national research infrastructure for archaeology and an international standard database for environmental archaeology data. It is being developed and managed at the Environmental Archaeology Lab (MAL), in collaboration with HUMlab at Umeå University. Development and data ingestion is progressing in partnership with The Laboratory for Ceramic Research and National laboratory for wood anatomy and dendrochronology at Lund University, Sweden.

The system allows the online storage, extraction, analysis and visualisation of data on past climates, environments and human impacts, and forms part of an international network of research infrastructure for environmental archaeology and Quaternary palaeoecology. Our mission is to provide online tools to aid international researchers in these tasks, and to provide access to data that are currently not accessible online. Please click the buttons above for more information.

SEAD is financed by The Swedish Research Council and Umeå University Faculty of Humanities and Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies. Subprojects have been funded by the Lund University.

SEAD is always interested in hearing from anyone, including students, wishing to undertake projects involving the database. See people for more information. Please contact the team should you wish to make your data available through the system, or work with us in any other capacity.