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Bonampak Cacaxtla Calakmul Chalcatzingo Cholula Chultuns Ek Balam Loltun Caves Monte Alban National Museum Teotihuacan Xochicalco Welcome to Mesoamerican Photo Archives, owned and maintained by David R. Hixson, a graduate student in Tulane University's Department of Anthropology. The purpose of this web site is to educate and stimulate the public with both accurate information and beautiful ...

Welcome to the Precolumbian Art Research Institute website. New: Morley Hires Tatiana Proskouriakoff - by Khristaan D. Villela. This online re-publication of an article from the PARI Journal presents rare Proskouriakoff drawings. Student members, send in your questions to the Ask the Experts panel: E. Wyllys Andrews, Karen Bassie, Arlen Chase, Diane Chase, Rafael Cobos, William Fash, Virginia ...

Welcome to GB Online's Mesoamerica - pages for enthusiasts with a focus on prehispanic codices, archeological sites, ceramics, and native issues. Research in Mesoamerican Art, Archaeology, Cultural Issues, Epigraphy & Linguistics. Includes bibliographic resources, book reviews, and links to other pages. Special emphasis on ancient writing and the painted pre-columbian manuscripts, ...

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Quetzalcoatl: The Man, The Myth, The Legend Introduction | Background | Map of the Area | Pronounciation | Chronology | Dramatis Personae | Quetzalcoatl Image | Olmecs | Mayans | Cosmology | Quetzalcoatl - The Man, The Myth, The Legend | References Introduction Quetzalcoatl. We've all heard the name before. He's that Feathered Serpent of Ancient Mexico . However, that only answers the WHAT. Ask, ...

MESOAMERICAN WRITING SYSTEMS The Automatic Language Translator (Espanol, Deutsche, Francaise, etc) INTRODUCTION Writing systems can be classified into several types, including: pictographic, ideographic, logographic, syllabic, and alphabetic (Sharer 1994:604). Pictographic writing systems are designed to represent words, ideas, or groups of words or ideas by means of elements that visually portray ...

The Olmec World, the first major exhibition of Olmec art and the first important catalogue to concentrate on this seminal civilization.

OLMEC CIVILIZATION: 1200BC- 600AD The Olmecs were a culture of ancient peoples -1300-400 B.C. - of the East Mexico lowlands. They are often regarded as the Mother Culture of later Middle American civilizations. The Olmec people called themselves Xi (pronounced Shi). Olmecs had colossal heads some of which were deformed. Portrait of a man with said deformation. This life-sized greenstone head was ...

The Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at Dav d Carrasco, Director Founded in 1982 at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project came to Princeton University in 1993 when historian of religions, Dav d Carrasco, joined the Department of Religion faculty. Established with a generous grant from the Raphael and Fletcher Lee Moses Trust, the Archive ...

Home THE OLMEC In 1862 a colossal stone head was discovered in the state of Veracruz along the steaming Gulf Coast of Mexico. In the years to come, artifacts from the culture later termed Olmec turned up at widespread sites in Mexico and adjacent Central America, with the greatest number of characteristic themes being present in the region of the original discovery. For decades these findings ...

Study of a newly discovered column of hieroglyphic text on the La Mojarra stela has confirmed the accuracy of translations published five years ago.

The Olmec Culture: La Venta and Izapa For more information on Olmec cultures, click here. Double-headed Figure Seated Figure Colossal Head Vessel Relief Personal Ornaments Stela 1 and Altar 1 The Olmec Culture The Olmec culture flourished from around 1200 to 300 BC in central Mexico and parts of Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica. Olmec works of art, made of stone, clay, and jade, represent the ...