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Edited by Dolores R. Piperno, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and approved January 8, 2020 (received for review August 15, 2019)
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Database name Collections Spatial and temporal extent Institution URL ITRDB Dendrochronology International, past 8,000 y NOAA https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/paleoclimatology-data/datasets/tree-ring GRSciColl Interdisciplinary object-based scientific collections International, human origins Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://scicoll.org/grscicoll.html Smithsonian Institution NMNH Database Smithsonian NMNH’s collections data International, human origins to historic times NMNH, Smithsonian Institution https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/ Ancient Maize Map Ancient maize Americas, 8,311 cal y B.P. to present Lab of Archaeology at University of British Columbia http://en.ancientmaize.com/ The Digital Archaeological Record Records of archaeological investigations International, Pliocene to present Digital Antiquity, Arizona State University https://www.tdar.org/ Vertnet Biodiversity data International, Pleistocene Individuals from University of California, Berkeley; University of Colorado; University of Kansas; and Tulane University http://vertnet.org/
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