Flora Europaea http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/FE/fe.html
Searchable database for all native and introduced Europaean flora. Hosted by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.

Plants for a Future http://www.pfaf.org/
Very useful database, containing many European and North American wild species of economic value. Lists ecology, uses, and literary references by English and Latin plant names.

Seed Database, Ohio State University http://www.oardc.ohiostate.edu/seedid/search.asp
An extensive collection of photographic images of seeds - and a seed quiz!

BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide (UK) http://www.bioimages.org.uk/
Photographs of just about any biological entity... with a search engine

Economic Botany, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/scihort/ecbot.html
A good start when investigating modern plant uses and distributions; world wide.

Collections Database, Rural History Centre, University of Reading http://www.ruralhistory.org/the_collections/ad_search.html
Extremely useful database of published and unpublished work relating to all aspects of past agriculture in the British Isles.

Environmental Archaeology Bibliography, English Heritage http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/eab_eh_2004/
The most comprehensive summary of bioarchaeological publications available in the U.K... with a search engine.

Helmut Kroll's European Archaeobotany Database http://www.archaeobotany.de/
Searchable collection of archaeobotanical publications

Association of Environmental Archaeologists http://www.envarch.net

Sarah Mason, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/profiles/smason/smethnob.htm
An amazing collection of links to ethnobotanical and archaeobotanical databases, the emphasis is on wild plant resources.

Naomi Miller, University of Pennsylvania, US http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~nmiller0/index.html
Useful information on Near Eastern archaeobotany, particularly early cereal cultivation.

Environmental Archaeology Unit (EAU), University of York http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/eau/
Very diverse, but particularly North-west European waterlogged bioarchaeology.

George Willcox, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Jalès, France
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/g.willcox/
Very detailed and accessible work focused upon the early agriculture of the Near and Middle East.

 

Environmental Archaeology http://www.envarch.net/publications/envarch/index.html

Journal of human palaeoecology, based at the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield.

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (Cambridge University PWF access only)o 'Springerlink' website

 

National Institute of Agricultural Botany http://www.niab.com/
Cambridge-based organisation with expertise in many aspects of modern agricultural research.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
University of Texas at Austin. Full of maps, and links to other internet sources of maps.

Environmental Archaeology Bibliography (EAB) http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/eab_eh_2004/ A compilation of bibliographic references to reports on environmental archaeology from the whole of the British Isles (including the Channel Islands).