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Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations - http://www.angelfire.com/ca/humanorigins/
Information on the writing systems, government and religions of the Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Aztec, by Kevin L. Callahan, University of Minnesota, with references and links.

ANTH 506: Ancient American Civilizations: Mesoamerica - http://www.ku.edu/~hoopes/506/lecture.htm
Lecture Notes from Kansas University.

Archeological Sites Mesoamerica - http://www.mines.edu/fs_home/jsneed/courses/LISS.380-83/LISS.381/resources/sites/index.shtml
Joseph Sneed of the Colorado School of Mines provides information about selected archaeological sites relevant to a course on technology, environment and human adaptation in pre-european Mesoamerica.

Aztec, Olmec and Mesoamerica Directory - http://www.historylink101.com/1/aztec/ancient_aztec.htm
Offers links categorized in five areas: art, daily life, maps, pictures, and research.

Chronological Table of Mesoamerican Archaeology - http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/arch/mexchron.html
D.K. Jordan's provisional chronology designed to accompany Michael D. Coe's books The Maya (1999) and Mexico (1994), on which it is largely based.

Debunking the Pyramids - http://anth507.tripod.com/pyramids.htm
The pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica are related, right? This paper dispels myths regarding hyperdiffusionism and the pyramids, focusing on the dissimilarities of Mesoamerican and Egyptian pyramids.

GB Online's Mesoamerica - http://pages.prodigy.com/GBonline/mesowelc.html
Focuses on prehispanic codices, archeological sites, ceramics, and native issues. Includes bibliographic resources, book reviews, and links to other pages.

History, Myth, and Migration in Mesoamerica - http://www.cc.ku.edu/~hoopes/aztlan/History.htm
Recent studies have recognized numerous distinctive elements in indigenous narratives, which appear to varying degrees in the hybrid accounts of the Colonial period. The defining characteristic of these sources is the different nature of Mesoamerican time.

http://www.angelfire.com/zine/meso/meso/aztlan.txt - http://www.angelfire.com/zine/meso/meso/aztlan.txt
Web list open to all persons interested in Pre-Columbian cultures, whether amateurs or professionals.

http://www.mesoweb.com/ - http://www.mesoweb.com/
A large collection of articles and resources on Mesoamerica and its cultures, primarily Maya, Aztec and Olmec, maintained by Joel Skidmore. Includes an illustrated encyclopedia of Mesoamerica.

http://www.mexicon.de/ - http://www.mexicon.de/
Publication features news and studies on Mesoamerica.

Institute for Mesoamerican Studies - http://www.albany.edu/ims/
Non-profit institute studying the ancient and modern peoples and cultures of Mesoamerica.

Mesoamerica Web Ring by James Q. Jacobs - http://www.jqjacobs.net/mesoamerica/
Photo galleries of Teotihuacan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Palenque, Izapa, stone sculptures and artifacts. Includes a Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy article.

Mesoamerican Archaeological Sites - http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/sites/meso.html
Features articles about sites in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.

Mesoamerican Archaeology - http://www.angelfire.com/zine/meso/
Collected scholarly files, links, resources, software and reports relevant or interesting to Mesoamerican and Pre-Columbian Archaeology.

Mesoamerican Architecture - http://www90.homepage.villanova.edu/lowell.gustafson/maya.htm
Image gallery of Mesoamerican architecture.

Mesoamerican Photo Archives - http://www.mesoamerican-archives.com/
Features a gallery of photographs by David R. Hixson, a graduate student in Tulane University's Department of Anthropology.

Mesoamerican Themes and Chaco Canyon - http://www.colorado.edu/Conferences/chaco/mesomod.htm
An essay with references by F. J. Mathien on archeological links between the native cultures of North and Central America. Part of a virtual conference on Chaco by the University of Colorado.

Middle American Research Institute (MARI) - http://www.tulane.edu/~mari/
Conducts, supports, and publishes research in the anthropology, and especially the archaeology of Mexico and Central America.

Quetzalcoatl's Fathers: A Critical Examination of Source Materials - http://www.cc.ku.edu/~hoopes/aztlan/tripart.htm
One of the problems scholars face in the reconstruction of the Quetzalcoatl material is that the material itself appears to relate to multiple aspects revolving around the same or similar names.

The Aztec, Maya and Inca Collections - http://www.fieldmuseum.org/research_collections/anthropology/anthro_sites/anthro3/m_s_america/aztec.htm
A brief description of this section of the anthropology collections of the Field Museum, Chicago.

The Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies - http://www.famsi.org/
Fosters increased understanding of ancient Mesoamerican cultures. Photographic archives of Justin Kerr and the technical drawing archives of Linda Schele and John Montgomery. Grant information and bibliography.

The Foundation of Latin American Anthropological Research - http://www.maya-art-books.org/
Provides information about archaeology, art and architecture of the ancient Maya and other pre-Columbian cultures; photographic archive; travel; book service; and photography and imaging.

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