ArchaeoSTOR: A data curation system for research on the archeological frontier

•We review the needs in archeology for data management.•We introduce a pipeline to characterize archeological legacy and field data.•We introduce a spatial based application for calling up archeological data.•We establish that a tool like ArchaeoSTOR is necessary for modern field research.

The broad adoption of diagnostic and analytical techniques in the field of archeology, presents a unique opportunity for e-Science in the form of scientific explanation, drawing from methodologies aimed at recording, archiving, analyzing, and disseminating, rich data collections to create the needed infrastructure for both research and web-based curation and data management system. This paper presents a needed stepping stone towards synergy between information technology and archeology, by introducing a data acquisition, tagging and characterization pipeline along with a novel method for spatially querying archeological data.