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The aim of the UK-based "Lithic Share Project (International Lithics and Artefacts Database)" is simple. "Creating A Global Database Of Lithics and Artefacts" serves to provide a platform that allows the sharing of lithics and associated prehistoric artefacts from around the world. In doing so, its unnamed authors hope that it will "create an unprecedented and comprehensive resource to assist study in this field". Societies, organisations, museums and private collectors may all contribute to the database by uploading images and details, "thus providing public access to items that may otherwise have been unavailable for study" (ie not available on t'internet).
The aim of the UK-based "Lithic Share Project (International Lithics and Artefacts Database)" is simple. "Creating A Global Database Of Lithics and Artefacts" serves to provide a platform that allows the sharing of lithics and associated prehistoric artefacts from around the world. In doing so, its unnamed authors hope that it will "create an unprecedented and comprehensive resource to assist study in this field". Societies, organisations, museums and private collectors may all contribute to the database by uploading images and details, "thus providing public access to items that may otherwise have been unavailable for study" (ie not available on t'internet).
The project helps safeguard the known provenance of lithics, ensuring that this valuable data remains protected, even if ownership changes. [...] Of course, the accuracy of a given provenance for contributed lithics cannot always be guaranteed, so a rating system has been introduced to indicate the reliability of the details provided. These will be indicated as Known, Most Probable and Unknown. Please see the Database menu for more details.How about other collectors of dugup antiquities doing a bit of "safeguarding the known provenance" of objects in their collection?
Hat-tip to Nigel Swift for the link.
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