SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database
type: Dataset
description: SEAD is an open access multiproxy environmental archaeology and palaeoecology database and software development project. The database contains the raw data from the scientific analysis of archaeological, Quaternary geological and related investigations, mainly from Sweden and Europe, but also to a lesser extent from outside of the EU. The raw data include counts of plant macrofossils, fossil insects and pollen along with geoarchaeological measurements and ceramic analyses. Dating methods stored range from calendar or coinage records, through radiocarbon (14C) and dendrochronology, to broad period definitions. SEAD is built around a flexible modular architecture and can be expanded to cope with any related material. Online/offline interfaces for data entry and extraction are available, including the advanced low level aggregation of data from multiple sites. The project is part of an international network of palaeoecology databases, and includes a large amount of modern reference, calibration and ecological data to aid interpretation. Purpose: The primary purposes of SEAD is the dissemination of scientific data from archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations. This includes the online publication of grey literature and its associated data (especially from the National Environmental Archaeology Lab in Umeå, Ceramics and Dendrochonology Labs in Lund) as well as databases previously not available online. SEAD also aims to provide powerful interrogation and analysis tools which allow users to identify trends and relationships through a multiple and broad range of datasets for looking at multi-scale environmental and climate change and human impact. SEAD also integrates modern ecology with the fossil data and provides a comprehensive bibliography, methods reference and site metadata.
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  name: Buckland, P.I. 2010. SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database. An international research cyber-infrastructure for studying past changes in climate, environment and human activities. Journal of Northern Studies. No.1 2010.
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  name: Buckland, P. I., Olofsson, J. & Engelmark, R. 2006. Planning Report: SEAD. Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database. MAL rapports nr. 2006-031. Environmental Archaeology Lab. Department of Archaeology & Sámi Studies
citation: Buckland, P.I. & Buckland, P.C. 2014. BugsCEP, an entomological database twenty-five years on. Antenna (Journal of the Royal Entomological Society) 38(1), 21-28.
citation: Palm, F. 2009. Abstracting query building for multi-entity faceted browsing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009, Volume 5822/2009, 53-63.
citation: Buckland, P.I. 2010. Environmental Archaeology, Climate Change and E-Science. Skytteanska Samfundets årsbok, Thule.
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  name: Buckland, P.I., Eriksson, E.J., Linderholm, J., Viklund, K., Engelmark, R., Palm, F., Svensson, P., Buckland, P.C., Panagiotakopulu, E. & Olofsson, J. 2010. Integrating Human Dimensions of Arctic Palaeoenvironmental Science: SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (2), pp. 345-351.
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  name: Buckland, P.I., Buckland, P.C. & Olsson, F. 2014. Paleoentomology: Insects and other Arthropods in Environmental Archaeology. In Smith, C., Lanteri, C., Reid, J., Smith, J. & Krauss, T.M. (in press). The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer.
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  name: Grabowski, R. 2011. Changes in cereal cultivation during the Iron Age in southern Sweden: a compilation and interpretation of the archaeobotanical material. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 20(5), 479-494.
citation: Buckland, P.I. 2014. The Bugs Coleopteran Ecology Package (BugsCEP) database: 1000 sites and half a million fossils later. Quaternary International Special Issue: Russell Coope Honorary volume.
citation: Eriksson, T. & Lindahl, A. 2013. The Handicrafts of Iron Age Pottery in Scandinavia: Regionalities and Traditions. Lund Archaeological Review 18 (2012), pp. 45-60
citation: Buckland, P.I. 2011. Freeing information to the people. International Innovation, EuroFocus, 2011 Issue 4: Nordic Spotlight, pp. 51-53.
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  name: Buckland, P.I., Eriksson, E.J. & Palm, F. 2014. SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database, Progress Report Spring 2014. MAL reports nr. 2014-13. Environmental Archaeology Lab. Umeå University. 46 pp.
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  name: Buckland, P. I. 2014. SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database. Inter-linking multiproxy environmental data with archaeological investigations and ecology. In: Graeme Earl, Tim Sly, Angeliki Chrysanthi, Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Constantinos Papadopoulos, Iza Romanowska & David Wheatley (Ed.), CAA2012, Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, England. Amsterdam.
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  name: Buckland, P.I. & Buckland, P.C. 2012. Species found as fossils in Quaternary sediments. In Duff, A.G., Checklist of Beetles of the British Isles, 2nd Edition. A.G. Duff, Wells, Somerset, United Kingdom. pp. 127-130.
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  name: Meissner, K., Buckland, P.I., Linderson, H. & Hammarlund, D. 2012. Pilotprojekt ”Dendro-databas” i SEAD April 2012-juni 2012. MAL rapporter nr. 2012-23. Umeå universitet & Lunds universitet. (In Swedish).
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  name: Buckland, P.I. & Eriksson, E.J. 2014. Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD). In Smith, C., Lanteri, C., Reid, J., Smith, J. & Krauss, T.M. (2014). The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer.
conditions of access: https://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/access-right/NON_PUBLIC
conditions of access: info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
creative work status: completed
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creator: Philip Buckland
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  affiliation: Umeå University
  family name: Buckland
  given name: Philip
creator: Erik J Eriksson
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  affiliation: Umeå University
  family name: Eriksson
  given name: Erik J
creator: Karin Viklund
  type: Person
  affiliation: Umeå University
  family name: Viklund
  given name: Karin
creator: Johan Linderholm
  type: Person
  affiliation: Umeå University
  family name: Linderholm
  given name: Johan
creator: Patrik Svensson
  type: Person
  affiliation: Umeå University
  family name: Svensson
  given name: Patrik
date modified: 2017-10-09
date published: 2011-01-01
keywords: HISTORY
keywords: Geology
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keywords: Geochemistry
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keywords: Other Earth Sciences
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  description: Including: Geographical Information Science
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keywords: Ecology
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  description: Including: Biodiversity Conservation
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keywords: History and Archaeology
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keywords: Archaeology
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keywords: ceramics
keywords: subfossils
keywords: plant macrofossils
keywords: quaternary geology
keywords: dating
keywords: insects
keywords: dendrochronology
keywords: pollen
keywords: proxy data
keywords: geoarchaeology
keywords: palaeoecology
keywords: environmental archaeology
publisher: Umeå University
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department: Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, Department of historical, philosophical and religious studies
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description: Use note: In addition to this broader topic, use another topic for historical data. Example: for data on the working environments of family doctors in the 1960s, use HISTORY and 'Working conditions' plus 'Health care services and policies'. Use the HISTORY topic on its own only if a more specific topic cannot be found in this vocabulary.
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