Looking Back at 2017, Part II: tDAR, Content, and Usage

We had a busy year in 2017, tDAR continued to grow with significant contributions from a number of organizations. tDAR had one major software release, Prehistoric, which unified search across collections, resources, and data integrations, and simplified rights and permissions.

Content added to tDAR in 2017

 

Usage Statistics

While we do not maintain detailed statistics on users or use to protect user and contributor privacy, we can share some interesting aggregate data. Below are the most frequently viewed and downloaded resources.

Popular Resources

These include the most viewed resources in tDAR.

• Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) (11456)
• Prehistoric Irrigation in Arizona: Symposium 1988 (5385)
• Food Crisis in Prehistory: Overpopulation and the Origins of Agriculture (4175)
• Jordan’s Journey (44PG302) (3586)
• Koster Site, IL (11GE4) (3504)
• Aztec Ruin Dendro Data (3346)
• Burial Ridge, Tottenville, Staten Island, N. Y.: Archaeology at New York City’s Largest Prehistoric Cemetery (2664)
• ‘Feudalism’ in the Interlacustrine Kingdoms. In: East African Chiefs: a Study of Political Development In Some Uganda and Tanganyika Tribes (2334)
• Culture and Commitment: a Study of the Generation Gap (2289)
• Dog River Plantation (1MB161), Mobile County, Alabama. (2181)
• Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains: Proceedings of a Seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History (2142)
• The Archaeology of Highland Chiriqui, Panama — Documents, Images, and Datasets (2071)
• Outdated: Fauna Taxon – Southwest US Ontology (3028) (1973)
• NABO Artifacts (1890)
• Eaton Site (1889)
• MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS AT SITES CA-SBA-671 AND CA-SBA-677, VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA (1884)
• Spitalfields Project (1880)
• Outdated: Fauna Taxon Ontology – Eastern US (1853)
• Iroquoian Ceramic Data (1805)
• Recommendation for Age and Sex Diagnoses of Skeletons (1746)

Popular Downloads

These were the most downloaded files from tDAR.

• Archeological Investigations at Joshua Tree National Park, California (202)
• Exploring Iran: The Photography of Erich F. Schmidt, 1930-1940, Supplementary Material (190)
• Grand Challenges for Archaeology – Crowd Sourcing Report (150)
• Tikal Report 11: Georeferenced Map- “Ruins of Tikal” (with border) (148)
• Petroglyphs of the Picacho Mountains, South Central Arizona (142)
• A Gazetteer of Excavated Hohokam Sites on Canal System Two, Phoenix Basin, Arizona (127)
• Hohokam Population Database (123)
• An Overview and Assessment of Middle Verde Valley Archeology (122)
• A Century of Archeological Research at Mesa Verde National Park (122)
• Mimbres Pottery Database (Public) (115)
• Archaeological Excavations at Jordan’s Point: Sites 44PG151, 44PG300, 44PG302, 44PG303, 44PG315, 44PG333 (114)
• Humboldt County 1947-1948 Aerial Photo Index Table (108)
• Archeological Collections Management of the Great Island Tavern Site, Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts (107)
• Archaeology of the Pueblo Grande Platform and Surrounding Features Volume 2 Features in the Central Precinct of the Pueblo Grande Community (107)
• Frank Midvale’s Investigation of the Site of La Ciudad (105)
• The Archeology of Gila Cliff Dwellings (104)
• The Excavations of Los Muertos and Neighboring Ruins in the Salt River Valley, Southern Arizona (102)
• The Importance of Plow Zone Archaeology (102)
• Tikal Report 11: Georeferenced Map- “Ruins of Tikal” (with border) (98)
• Part 3: Quiriguá Wider Periphery, Additional Illustrations and Tables (97)