Material Types
Here you can limit your search by material type(s). Hovering your cursor over the text will bring up a text box describing each material type.
Cultural Terms
In this section you can limit your search by cultural term(s). You may enter cultures not included in the list by clicking "add another search term".
Here you can limit your search by temporal keywords (e.g. "Postclassic", "Sedentary", "Bronze Age", etc.).
General Keywords
Here you can limit your search by general keywords. General keywords may include specific types of investigations undertaken as part of resource creation (e.g., "material sourcing", "ceramic petrography", "experimental archaeology"), specific site types ("rock gardens", "ground stone production area", "shrine"), as well as overarching descriptive terms ("economy", "warfare").
Narrow Search Results
Narrow search results further by selecting a resource type.
Spatial Limits
tDAR allows you to limit search results by using a geographic term (e.g. named regions, geographic features, states, towns, etc.) or to those resources that fall within a bounding box on a map.
Drawing a bounding box:
- Use the Google Map display to navigate to your search location
- click the "Select Region" button
- draw a box that best approximates the area that you would like to search
Sorting Options and Submit
Sorting options allow you to indicate the order in which the search results will be returned (e.g. relevance, date, ID, etc). Selecting "Search" will bring up your search results.
Search Results
Search results are returned by relevance by default. Ten records are displayed per page, and the number of records, as well as links to click on specific pages, are available at the bottom of the Search Results page.
Clicking on the title of the record will take you to its page.
A number of options for refining and limiting your search are available on the right hand column of the search page.
Search Options
Here you are able to refine your search results, download your results to Excel, or change your sorting preferences.
To refine your search you select "Refine your search" and return to the Advanced Search page.
To download a copy of your search results to Excel, select "to Excel". The Excel document includes the search terms, a URL to the search results, the individual who downloaded the file with a time and date stamp, and the search results (ID, Resource Type, Title, Date, Authors, Project, Description, Number of Files, URL, and Physical Location).
The "Sort By" drop down menu allows you to reorder the results by relevance, ID, ID (reversed), Title, Title (Z-A), Project, Date, Date (reversed), Date Updated, Date Updated (Reversed), Resource Type, resource Type (Z-A).
Limit Your Search
tDAR allows you to limit your search by resource type, document type, or file access. The number of returned records of each type is indicated in parentheses.