Guides to good practice
- CIfA 2014 Standard and guidance for the collection, documentation, conservation and research of archaeological materials (PDF)
- CIfA 2019 Toolkit for Selecting Archaeological Archives
- CIfA 2020 Toolkit for Specialist Reporting
- Portable Antiquities Scheme recording guides
Thesauri, word lists and reference catalogues
- Archaeological Objects Thesaurus, Forum on Information Standards in Heritage
- British Museum Materials Thesaurus
- British Museum Object Names Thesaurus
- Medieval Pottery Research Group (2020) A Guide to the Classification of Medieval Ceramic Forms
Historic England guidelines
- Animal bones and Archaeology: Recovery to Archive (2019)
- Archaeological Evidence for Glassworking: Guidelines for Recovering, Analysing and Interpreting Evidence (2018)
- Archaeological and Historic Pottery Production Sites: Guidelines for Best Practice (2015)
- Archaeometallurgy: Guidelines for Best Practice (2015)
- Environmental Archaeology: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Methods, from Sampling and Recovery to Post-excavation (2011; second edition)
- First Aid for Finds: Practical Guide for Archaeologists (1998; third edition). Hertford: Rescue, The British Archaeological Trust.
- Guidance for Best Practice for the Treatment of Human Remains Excavated from Christian Burial Grounds in England (2017; second edition) (PDF)
- Organic Residue Analysis and Archaeology: Guidance for Good Practice
- Mineralised Plant and Invertebrate Remains: A guide to the identification of calcium phosphate replaced remains (2020)
- Science and the Dead (2nd edition): A guideline for the destructive sampling of archaeological human remains for scientific analysis (2023), Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Burials in England (APABE) (PDF)
- The Role of the Human Osteologist in an Archaeological Fieldwork Project (2018)
- Waterlogged Organic Artefacts: Guidelines on their Recovery, Analysis and Conservation (2012)
Other specialist standards
- Barclay, A, Knight, D, Booth, P, Evans, J, Brown, D H and Wood, I, 2016 A Standard for Pottery Studies in Archaeology Prehistoric Ceramics Research Group, Study Group for Roman Pottery and Medieval Pottery Research Group
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/standard-for-pottery-studies-in-archaeology/ - Mitchell, P D and Brickley, M, 2017 Updated Guidelines to the Standards for Recording Human Remains
https://babao.org.uk/assets/Uploads-to-Web/14-Updated-Guidelines-to-the-Standards-for-Recording-Human-Remains-digital.pdf - Higgins, D 2017 Guidelines for the Recovery and Processing of Clay Tobacco Pipes from Archaeological Projects
http://www.pipearchive.co.uk/pdfs/howto/Guidelines%20Ver%201_2%20030917.pdf
