Foundation for Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. provides research funds and Pre-Columbian educational resources: Images; Grantee Reports; and Mesoamerican Bibliography.

Mesa Verde National Park Located near Cortez and Mancos, CO TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Mesa Verde's Point Lookout and North Rim through a Spring Shower and Rainbow from Cortez - Photographer: Alisa Gardiner IN BRIEF Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table , offers an unparalleled opportunity to see and experience a unique cultural and physical landscape.

Aztec Calendar. Shows you the current date according to the tonalpohualli, the sacred Aztec calendar. Gives a reading of the significance of the day and the relevant gods.

Links to Art, Daily Life, Maps, Pictures and Research on Ancient Mayans designed for a World History Classes.

Hovenweep National Monument Located near Blanding, UT TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Stronghold House, which is part of the Square Tower Group. (NPS photo by Neal Herbert) IN BRIEF Hovenweep National Monument protects five prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border. The ...

The Ancestral Puebloans created a thriving civilization and built hundred-room cities in Mesa Verde Country's mountains, mesas and canyons.

Montezuma Castle National Monument Located in Camp Verde, AZ TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS Montezuma Castle National Monument (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF It's not a castle and Montezuma was never here. Nestled into a limestone recess high above the flood plain of Beaver Creek in the Verde Valley stands one of the best preserved cliff dwellings in North America.

Tuzigoot National Monument Located in Clarkdale, AZ TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF Crowning a desert hilltop is an ancient pueblo. From a roof top a child scans the desert landscape for the arrival of traders, who are due any day now. What riches will they bring What stories will they tell Will all of them return From the top of ...

Archaeology, Protohistory, and Ceremony in the Pee Dee River Valley.

The Aztecs/Mexicas The Aztecs/Mexicas were the native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan CORTES in the early 16th century. According to their own legends, they originated from a place called Aztlan, somewhere in north or northwest Mexico. At that time the Aztecs (who referred to themselves as the Mexica or Tenochca) were a small, ...

The Mississippian culture flourished from 800AD. This is the story of the Moundbuilders of North Georgia and the most intact site of their culture in the east, the Etowah Indian Mounds ...

Like their cultural kin ...

Ilustrated explanation of the pointer of the Aztec calendar, which functions as an indicator of the first and last days of the 260c and 365c day-count calendars ...

Welcome to Colossal Cave Mountain Park, this dormant cave is the home to dozens of species of mammals, including bats. Colossal Cave, which is on National Register of Historic Places, has been inhabited by prehistoric peoples as well as train robbers.

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, ...

Canyonlands National Park, Utah: Nature and Wildflower Photography featuring Utah's Great Canyonlands National Park ...

This site documents my trip through the Ancient ruins of Mexico & Guatemala in 2001.

Mayan math and culture ...

History The term, Aztec, is a startlingly imprecise term to describe the culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Properly speaking, all the Nahua-speaking peoples in the Valley of Mexico were Aztecs, while the culture that dominated the area was a tribe of the Mexica (pronounced me-shee-ka ) called the Tenochca ( te-noch-ka ). At the time of the ...

Archaeology and the Native Peoples of Tennessee - a permanent exhibit at the Frank H. McClung Museum ...

Bibliography on Aztec History Ricardo J. Salvador George Vaillant published Aztecs of Mexico (Doubleday & Co.) in 1944, and in it he attempted to present a comprehensive history that included cultural, economic, religious and social aspects. As can be expected, this work and many of its interpretations have been superceded by much subsequent scholarship, but it is still useful for its very ...

Ancient Indian ruins in the four corners area of the Southwest ...

Mayan Civilization Geography and Landscape The ancient Maya civilization occupied the eastern third of Mesoamerica, primarily the Yucatan Peninsula. The topography of the area greatly varied from volcanic mountains, which comprised the highlands in the South, to a porous limestone shelf, known as the Lowlands, in the central and northern regions. The southern portion of the Lowlands were covered ...

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 Hohokam peoples occupied a wide area of south-central Arizona from roughly Flagstaff south to the Mexican border. They are thought to have originally migrated north out of Mexico around 300 BC to become the most skillful irrigation farmers the Southwest ever knew.

Copyright 1996 The New York Times Company The New York Times August 20, 1996, Tuesday, Late Edition - Final Section C; Page 1; Column 3; Science Desk 1903 words Social Strife May Have Exiled Ancient Indians By GEORGE JOHNSON SANTA FE, N.M. UNTIL very recently, the most perplexing mystery of Southwestern archeology -- what caused the collapse of the ancient empire of the Anasazi -- seemed all but ...

Anasazi Hisatsinom: Sky Scraper Builders Well, small ones anyway, some as high as five stories. We will begin to use Hisatsinom as the preferred term by the Hopi, but continue to show the relationship with the Dineh term Anasazi. The picture here is of the southeast wall of the Pueblo del Arroyo at the Chaco Culture Historical Site. Notice the woman at the right edge of the picture. She is about ...

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 ...

Introduction Early Paleo-Indian Late Paleo-Indian Archaic Early Woodland Middle Woodland Late Woodland Sources adapted from The Prehistory of Ontario (software) March 1995 First Edition by Nicholas R. Adams Adams Heritage Box 150, Newboro, Ontario K0G 1P0 copyright Nicholas R. Adams 1995 All Rights Reserved To bring the dead to life Is no great magic. Few are wholly dead: Blow on a dead man's ...

MAYA: Portraits of a People - a special exhibition at the Frank H. McClung Museum ...

Chaco Canyon: Land of the Ancient Strangers Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico If you look at the map, you will see a big empty space in the northwest corner of New Mexico, with hardly a road bothering to criss-cross it. This mostly unpopulated immensity is Anasazi (a Navajo word, meaning ancient strangers, or the ancient ones) country. It hides prehistoric ruins of the first rank.

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

If you are looking for information on the Mayan Civilization, then come here and get ready to be amazed ...

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Last Modified: 961011 Return Map of Anasazi Territory It is a pet peeve of mine that many works on the Southwest make reference to its many river valleys, but do not include a reference map. That is not a problem with the present textbook in AnLD 90, but in order to address it in previous years I made up this quick reference map that identifies the major river valleys along which the Anasazi and ...

O n e o t a Oneota: an archaeological culture in upper central U.S., ca. AD 900- ca. AD 1700. This is the ONEOTA site. Guide to Oneota archeological culture, Upper Mid-West, USA ...

AZTEC CALENDAR HANDBOOK. A technical manual for the Aztec Calendar and Aztec's perception of God by Dr. Randall C. Jimenez and Richard Graeber. The Aztec Calendar is old. The Aztec Calendar is big. The Aztec Calendar is significant. The Aztec Calendar was dedicated on 1479. The Aztec Calendar is 12 feet in diameter. The Aztec Calendar weighs 25 tons. Understand the AZTEC CALENDAR in 30 ...

Twelve thousand years ago, the average temperature in the southeastern United States was five to 10 degrees cooler than it is now, and the climate was drier. The landscape was covered with oak and pine forests mixed with open grasslands. Some familiar animals such as rabbits and deer lived in the area, but many other animals that have become extinct in North America were also common then. Among ...

The Aztec (Mexica) Empire 1400-1519 The mighty Aztec Empire was a group of American Indian people who ruled in Mexico in the 15th and 16th centuries. The ancestors of the Aztecs migrated for many years before settling in the 13th century in the valley where the empire later existed. By 1325 the Aztec had established the city of Tenochtitlan which became the capital. This very advanced and ...