Aztecs

Acoyauh's Aztec Lore: Information about the Aztecs and access to online books, including Popol Vuhl can be accessed through this site. www.acoyauh.com/index.html

Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico: Some gathered accounts collected by Miguel Leonú Portilla,a Mexican anthropologist, that were written shortly after the conquest. www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/aztecs1.html

The Aztecs/Mexicas: Indians.Org offers information on the cultural aspects of the Aztec as well as definitions for Aztec words. themexzone.com/aztecas

Aztec Calendar: Conversion calendar and explanation on the Aztec Calendar www.azteccalendar.com/calendar.html

The Aztec Calendar: This site offers information and pictorial references to aspects of the Aztec Calendar. www.ai.mit.edu/people/montalvo/Hotlist/aztec.html

The Aztec Calendar: Math and Design: Devoted to science in the ancient world, this site takes a mathematical look at the design and relation of the pointer to the concentric rings on the Aztec Calendar. www.earthmatrix.com/serie02/cuad02-2.html

Aztec Calendar: Aztec calendar dates converter. themexzone.com/aztecas
AZTLAN E-Journal: A small online journal providing links to articles on the historical human geography of Mesoamerica. www.cc.ukans.edu/%7Ehoopes/aztlan

Investigating Chiampa Farming:Paleoethnobotanist Virginia Popper provides a concise but informative explanation about chiampas farming for backdirt, the newsletter of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/backdirt/Fallwinter00/farming.html

Quetzalcoatl: The Man, The Myth, The Legend: A site dedicated to information about the important Aztec and Mayan God. weber.ucsd.edu/~anthclub/quetzalcoatl/quetzal.htm#home

Templo Mayor Museum: The Templo Mayor Project's museum site preserves, exhibits and publicizes information on archaeological materials excavated from 1978 to the present. archaeology.la.asu.edu/tm/index2.php

Time and the Aztec Mind - The Aztec Calendar Sun Stone in Context: This graphic rich web site is based on a replica of the Aztec Calendar held in the Classics Department at the Australian National University. The Sun Stone is the focus but the site also includes a general introduction to the Aztec civilization and its archaeology. rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects97/aztec/index.html

Yautepec, an Aztec City: Hosted by the University of Albany, this site provides a detailed online guide to this ancient Aztec urban centre. Along with good image content the site provides access to information
on other Aztec sites as well. www.albany.edu/~mesmith/yaucity.html

Mayan

Ceren Web Resource: Computer models, movies, QTVR, Shockwave and Java describe material from Ceren, an agricultural village in El Salvador that was buried in ash nearly fourteen centuries ago. ceren.colorado.edu/intropage/intropage.html

Echoes of a Lost City: An online look at the influences present at Kaminaljuyu. The
page is hosted by Millersville University muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/his/HELMUTH1.HIS

Hieroglyphs and History at Copan: Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology Web site hosts this detailed guide by Professor David Stuart focusing on Hieroglyphs of Copan. www.peabody.harvard.edu/Copan/text.html

Images of Mayan Cities: This page hosted by Villanova University provides a wealth of images of the major Mayan sites. www90.homepage.villanova.edu/lowell.gustafson/maya.htm

Lost King of The Mayan: PBS series Nova online companion site to their documentary uses video text and interactive maps to set the viewer in the Mayan world: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/maya

The Madrid Codex A Maya Hieroglyphic Book: This web site offers information on this ancient Mayan Document, and it's search engines allows for extensive investigation of the codex. madrid.doaks.org/codex/madcod.asp

Maya Adventure: The Science Museum of Minnesota's Maya Web site offers information related to ancient and modern Mayan, photographs from the museum's archives, and interactive activities and maps. www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/ma/top.html

The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project: jefferson.village.virginia.edu/med/home.html

Maya Art And Books International Photo Archive:Extensive photographic recording of the facts and artifacts from Mayan civilization .www.maya-art-books.org/

Mayan Astronomy: www.michielb.nl/maya/astro.html

Mayan Calendar: Decimal Mayan Converter trillian.mit.edu/~jc/conv/d2m

Material and Chemical Residues of Prehispanic Activity at El Coyote, Northwest Honduras: the findings of an ARI Graduate Fellowship Archeological Project are made available on the site hosted by Arizona University. archaeology.asu.edu/vm/mesoamerica/feasts/

Palenque and Chiapas Archeological Sites: A photo gallery of images from Palenque is provided on this site hosted by Colorado State University. www.colostate.edu/Orgs/LASO/Mexico/Documents/chiapas.html

Palenque, Technology and Human Adaptation: Colorado's school of Mines hosts professor Dr. Joseph Sneed's companion site to his Mesoamerican courses. Interactive text allows you to link back and forth between information and photos of Palenque. www.mines.edu/fs_home/jsneed/courses/LISS.380-83/LISS.381/resources/sites/palenque/index.shtml

Preclassic Maya Monuments and Temples at Cival, Petén, Guatemala: Antiquity E-Journal's article on the findings of at Cival, one of the earliest monumental complexes of religious and political structures in the Maya Lowlands antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/belli/belli.html

The Rabbit in the Moon: This extensive site showcases Mayan Hieroglyphic writing, the calendar, language and architecture, plus it offers a talking syllabary accessing sound files on Mayan language. www.halfmoon.org

The Mayan Environment: Topographical maps explore Mayan environment, altitude and climatic conditions. www.michielb.nl/maya/geographical.html

Tikal Digital Access Project: This project archives the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's 15 year archaeological investigation at Tikal. Contents include primary documents:field notes, correspondence, administrative records, maps, drawings, negatives, print photographs, slides, films, and secondary records,published and unpublished papers,theses, dissertations and analytic materials. www.museum.upenn.edu/tdap/

Mixtec and Zapotec

Monte Alban: Simon Fraser University's Latin American Studies division combines text and images to take viewer through an online tour of the ancient Mesoamerican site. www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/laarch/tour/montel

Monte Alban: A brief overview of Monte Alban and images of the archeological site are provided by the department of Sociology at West Virginia State. fozzy.wvsc.edu/academics/dept/sociology/oaxaca2/monte_alban.htm

Monte Alban: The Pre-Colombian Art and Art History course of the University of Texas shares information and images online on Monte Alban. www.utexas.edu/cofa/a_ah/dir/precol

Monte Alban: Click on the blue dots on the Monte Alban layout design and view photographs of each area. www.cnart.mx/cnca/virtual

Mixtec: Informative branch of the Mayan Lords web site share information on Mixtec culture and history. www.mayalords.org/mixtfldr/mixtbase

The Zapotecs: Monte Alban: Rose-Hulman Institute's provides an extensive photo gallery of the archeological site. www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/monte-alban.htm

Olmecs

Behind the Art Mexico's Lost Civilization: National Geographic's online companion to their 1996 article on mural artist Felipe Divalos's exploration of Olmec art styles. www.ngeo.com/ngm/9608/bts/a060.html

Economic Foundations of Olmec Civilization in the Gulf Coast Lowlands of Mexico: Foundation for Advancement in Mesoamerican Studies provides information drawn from data showing evidence for maize cultivation in the time and area of the Olmecs. www.famsi.org/reports/99069

Izapa: Cultural Hearth of the Olmec: Dartmouth college provides this PDF of an article originally published in the proceedings of the Association of American Geographers 1977 meeting. www.dartmouth.edu/~izapa/M-6.pdf

Olmec: Photographer Edward Dawson's online gallery of Olmec sculptures at La Venta. www.dallas.net/~lalo/

The Decipherment of the Olmec Writing System: An online version of a paper discussing the origin and the decipherment of the Olmec Writing System, taken from a presentation at the 1997 Central States Anthropological Society Meeting. www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8919/decip1.html

The Olmec World Ritual and Rulership: Tribal arts magazine, which is dedicated to fine and antique art in Europe, Asia and the America's, takes you on a text and graphic-rich online walk through the art Museum of Princeton's 1996 Olmec exhibit. www.tribalarts.com/feature/olmec

Teotihuacan and Central Mexico

The Archeological Study of Empires and Imperialism in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico: PDF version of an article published in the Journal of Anthropological Archeology 2003. www.albany.edu/~mesmith/1-Re-ArchEmpires.pdf

Discoveries at Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Moon Help Unlock Mysteries of Western Hemisphere's First Major Metropolis: A one-page news article shares findings from the excavation under Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Moon. clasdean.la.asu.edu/news/teomoon.htm

Political Boundaries and Political Structure: The Limits of the Teuchitlan Tradition: Details of fieldwork findings are laid out in this PDF file about archeological explorations on the eastern boundary of Teuchitlan valley. carbon.cudenver.edu/~cbeekman/articles/am96pap.pdf.

Teotihuacan, the City of Gods: Text and images as well as through recent excavation reports, and access to academic journals and through supplementary QuickTime® movies. archaeology.la.asu.edu/teo/index.htm

Chavin de Huanter

Andean Art at Dumbaton Oaks:PDF file. www.doaks.org/chavin.pdf

Buried Civilizations of the Earth: Quick study notes directed primarily at Chavin civilization from Professor Keith W. Kintigh's Archeology course at Arizona University. www.public.asu.edu/~kintigh

Exploring Chavin de Huantar: Trough text pictures and aa virtual tour this site explores this early horizon settlement. www.stanford.edu/~johnrick/chavin_wrap/chavin/

Form and Meaning in Chavin Art: Anthropologist John Rolwand Howe examines form and meaning in the online text from the Emeritus Lecture series at U.C.Berly. sunsite.berkeley.edu/Anthro/rowe/pub/chavin/index.html

Incas

Ice Mummies of the Incas: Image rich and informative companion site to the three-part BBC documentary on archaeologist Johan Reinhard's 96 expedition to the summit of Sara Sara in Peru in search of frozen sacrificial mummies. The site offers daily accounts and images from the expedition, e-mail questions and the responsesfrom the team. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/peru/index.html

Inca: This page provides a brief rundown on the Inca and the drop down menu takes you to a virtual museum and archeological images archived at the Minnesota State University. www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/cultures

The Incas And Their Predecessors: Online photo exhibit with text of artifacts on exhibit at the Tampere Art Museum. Clicking on topic head will take you to information and images. www.tampere.fi/tamu/peru

Inca Pottery Slide Show: Images from Henri Stierlin's book "Art of the Incas" online. www.theincas.com/pottery

Macchu Picchu: Civil EngineerMagazine provides an online version of their article in which a water engineer uncovers some fascinating aspects about the ancient city's water supply. www.pubs.asce.org/ceonline/0101feat.html

Applied Archeology in the Bolivian Amazon: Dr Clark Ericksons from the University of Pennsylvania provides published articles and research findings on traditional agricultural systems of the Bolivian Amazon. www.sas.upenn.edu/~cerickso/applied2.html

Upper Colca Archaeological Research Project:Information in the form of PDF files as well as survey maps about the project and its findings are available on the Incan archaeological site hosted by the University of Santa Barbra. titicaca.ucsb.edu/colca/

What is Khipu: Text and images are used to describe the Incan accounting system. wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/chaysimire/titulo2/khipus/what.htm

Moche

The Burial Theme in Moche Iconography: The PDF file version of an article in the journal Studies in Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology, no. 21. www.doaks.org/moche.pdf

Deity Of the Sky: One Way ToInterpret Moche Iconography: A page examining Moche iconography from the Institute of Estonian Languages. haldjas.folklore.ee/folklore/vol10/sky.htm

Moche Map: history.binghamton.edu/hist130/images/h130maps Tearing Down Old Walls in the New World: A PDF file of a paper originally published in Chrestomathy: Annual Review of Undergraduate Research at the College of Charleston Volume 1, 2002. www.cofc.edu/chrestomathy/vol1/proffitt.pdf

Nazca

Nazca Lines: Discovery Channel's mystic places section on Nazca lines provides science and news online accompanied by, enhanced by photographs, video, and interactive features. exn.ca/mysticplaces/nazcalines.asp

Tierra Sajama: Information and pictures from the fieldwork of a Studio-Seminar examining the Sajama Lines. cml.upenn.edu/tierrasajama/Sajama_English

Tiwanaku

Coastal Colonies and the Collapse of Tiwanaku: The Coastal Osmore Valley, Peru. An online version of a paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology 57th Annual Meeting, 1992. members.aol.com/OwenBruce/saa92_1.htm

The Collapse of the Tiwanaku State: A View from the Osmore Drainage: This online academic paper looks at the details of Tiwanaku. www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa

The Evolution of Settlement and Agriculture at the Tiwanaku V Site of Chen Chen, Moquegua, Peru: A full text online version of a poster presentation from the 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans 1996. people.bu.edu/prwill/saa96.htm

Tiwanaku: Research resources and information on the Tiwanaku polity in Peru and Bolivia by Alvaro Higueras, Ph.D. The site offers information and links in both Spanish and English as well as Flash presentations about Tiwanaku history and society. www.tiwanakuarcheo.net

The Tiwanaku Occupation of Chen Chen:The PDF report of the findings of 1995 salvage excavations at Chen Chen. andean.kulture.org/bandy/saa_1996.pdf

Were Wari and Tiwanaku in Conflict, Competition, or Complementary Coexistence: Survey Evidence from the Upper Osmore Drainage, Peru: An online version of a paper by Bruce Owen presented at the American Archaeology 59th Annual Meeting,1994. members.aol.com/OwenBruce