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Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

CAAL Vocabulary Explorer

Explore the multilingual controlled vocabularies used by CAAL to describe archaeological sites, chronology, archives, remote-sensing interpretation, condition, risk, location and related cultural heritage data.

Browse vocabularies

Select a controlled vocabulary from the navigator on the left. Vocabularies are grouped according to the areas of CAAL data in which they are used.

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Search across vocabularies

Use the search control above to find terminology across the complete CAAL reference-data collection rather than within a single vocabulary.

Search terms can be explored within their vocabulary and followed through broader, narrower and related concepts.

Explore multilingual concepts

Concept pages bring together preferred terms, descriptions and hierarchical relationships across the eight CAAL project languages.

Stable concept URIs and downloadable RDF support reuse outside the CAAL web application.