• Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Art of the Americas (in The George Ortiz Collection)
• American Indian Art in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• Pre-Columbian Meso-America (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
• Precolumbian Art Research Institute

NORTH AMERICA
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• Ancient Western Hemisphere (through Images from History), with links to:
  • 1. Ancient Civilization of the American Southwest
    • Anasazi (900-1150 A.D.)
    • Mogolon
    • Hohokam
    • Fremont
  • 2. Ancient Mississippian Civilization (900-1750 A.D.)
    • Cahokia and the Great Bottom
    • Mississippian southern region
• Native North America (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
• North America 8000 B.C. - 1600 A.D. (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
  • 8000 - 2000 B.C., with a link to
    • India Knoll (3000 - 2000 B.C.)
  • 2000 - 1000 B.C., with a link to
    • Poverty Point (2000 - 1000 B.C.)
  • 1000 B.C. - 1 A.D.
  • 1 - 500 A.D., with a link to
    • Hopewell (1 - 400 B.C.)
  • 500 - 1000 A.D., with a link to
    • Great Serpent Mound (500 - 1000 A.D.)
  • 1000 - 1400 A.D.
  • 1400 - 1600 A.D.
• Native North America (through the British Museum)
• Carving a totem pole at Skidegate, Haida Gwaii
  • The Carvers
  • Preparation
  • Tool Kit
  • Bear Figure
  • Whale Figure
  • Thunderbird Figure
  • Pole Raised
• Totem Poles (through the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia)
• Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (ACC)
• Canadian Heritage Galleries (through Canadian Heritage Gallery), including links to
  • Nootka Indian House (1784 engraving)
  • Haida Totem Pole
  • Haida carvings
  • Various wood-carved items from Nootka Sound (1780-1784)
  • Stoney Indian Tepee
  • Blackfoot Tepee
  • House and Totem Pole
  • Petroglyphs (northeast of Peterborough, Ontario)
  • Pictographs-1 and Pictographs-2 at Bon Echo Provincial Park, Ontario
• Southwestern United States Rock Art Gallery (Doak Heyser)
• Petroglyphs San Rafael Swell, Utah
• Native Basketry: Survival, Beauty (Paula Giese)
• Native American Women Photographers As Storytellers, by Joan M. Jensen, Professor Emerita, New Mexico State University (through Women Artists of the American West, An Internet Course and Interdisciplinary Resource from Purdue University)
• Nampeyo Pottery (through the Arizona State Museum), with links to
  • Introduction
  • Gallery
  • Ancestral Hopi Pottery
• Native America (Professor Ron Johnson), with links to:
  • Eskimo (Alaska)
  • Northwest Coast
  • Kwakiutl (British Columbia and Washington)
  • N. W. Coast - Tlingit (Alaska)
  • Haida (British Columbia)
  • Tsimshian (British Columbia)
  • Nootka (British Columbia)
  • Salish (Washington and British Columbia)
  • Pomo (California)
  • Klamath - North West California
  • Hupa
  • Yurok
  • Karuk
  • Southwest
  • Anasazi 1100-1400 A.D.
  • Hopi
  • Navajo
  • Plains Indians
  • Various Tribes
  • Quill Work
• Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado, with links to
  • Archaeological Sites
• The Anasazi Pueblos
• Images of sites in California: rock art at Burro Flats, Mockingbird Canyon, Olsen Canyon (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
• Chaco Canyon National Monument (through the National Park Service)
• Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico (through the National Park Service)
• Southwest American Indian Ruins (through Howard Partridge's Cupola)
• Ancient Architects of the Mississippi, with links to:
  • Life Along the Mississippi
  • Delta Voices
  • Traders and Travelers
  • The Moundbuilders
  • The Context, with a clickable map to:
    • Pinson Mounds, Pinson, Tennessee
    • Chucalissa, 10 km south of Memphis , Tennessee
    • Toltec Mounds, near Little Rock, Arkansas
    • Parkin, northeast Arkansas
  • Timeline
• Mississippian Cultures
• Serpent Mound, Ohio
• Northern America, in the Ethnological Missionary Museum in the Vatican (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
  • Collection of North American Indian portraits

MESOAMERICA
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• Mesoamerica: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
  • Geography of Mesoamerica
  • Ancient American Jade
    • Jade in Costa Rica
    • Jade in Mesoamerica
  • Gold of the Indies
  • La Venta
    • Sacred Architecture
    • Stone Sculpture
  • Monte Albán
    • Sacred Architecture
    • Stone Sculpture
  • Teotihuacan
    • Ciudadela
    • Mural Painting
    • Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon
  • Tikal
    • Sacred Architecture
    • Stone Sculpture
• The Canadian Society for Mesoamerican Studies, with a link to a gallery
  • Head of a Tikal figurine
  • K'awiil
  • Jade Head
  • Tikal Censor
  • Lamanai Str N10-9
  • Hochob II 
  • Tulum Temple 5
  • EdznaE6
  • Tikal Temple I
  • Tikal Temple I, Restored
  • Tikal Temple 33 1st A
  • Feathered Serpent
  • Maya Dwelling
  • Coyolxauhqui
  • Tikal Perspective
  • Tikal Temple IV
• The Olmec World: ritual an Rulership (Gillett G. Griffin)
• Mesoamerican Images (a large selection of royalty free digital images for purchase through AnthroArcheArt.org)
  • Olmec and Teotihuacan
    • La Venta
    • San Andres, Tres Zapotes
    • El Pital
    • Teotihuacan
  • Aztec, Toltec, Cholulatec, Totonac, Chichimec
    • Ake
    • El Tajin
    • Tenochtitlan
    • Comalcalco
    • Cacaxtla
    • Cholula
    • Iximche
    • Malinalco
    • Teotenango
    • Teopanzolco
    • Tula Hidalgo
    • Xochicalco
    • Zaculeu
    • Zempoala
  • Mixtec, Zapotec
    • Monta Alban
    • Mitla
    • Yagul
  • Maya Highlands
    • Ceibal
    • Copan
    • Kaminal Juyu
    • Quirigua
    • Tikal
  • Maya Lowlands
    • Altar de Sacraficios
    • Becan
    • Bonampak
    • Calakmul
    • Chicanna
    • Kohunlich
    • Palenque
    • Riobec
    • Tonina
    • Uaxactun
    • Xpujil
    • Yaxchilan
  • Maya Yucatan
    • Coba
    • Chichen Itza (Toltec)
    • old Chichen Itza (Maya)
    • Dzibilnocac
    • Edzna
    • Ek Balam
    • Hochob
    • Izamal
    • Kabah
    • Kuluba
    • Labna
    • Mayapan
    • Sayil in the Puuc Hills
    • Tahcob
    • Tulum
    • Uxmal
    • Xlapak
    • Xlacah
    • Yaxuna
• Architecture, Restoration, and Imaging of the Maya Cities of Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil and Labná in the Puuc Region, Yucatán, México (Charles S. Rhyne)
  • Introduction
  • Contents
    • Text
      • Introduction
      • The Maya
      • The Yucatán
      • The Puuc Region
      • Uxma, Kabah, Sayil and Labná
      • Restoration
      • Graphic and Photographic Documentation
      • Annotated Bibliography
    • Images
      • Uxmal
      • Kabah
      • Sayil
      • Labná
    • Selected Examples
      • Early Maps
      • Arches
      • Serpent Heads
      • Interior Rooms
      • Huts/Domestic Buildings
      • Paint and Plaster Remains
      • Stairs
      • Doorways and Lintels
      • Roofcombs
        
      • Platforms
      • Columns and Pillars
      • Chultunes and Aguadas
    • Early Drawings, Prints, & Photographs (1838-1930)
• Aztecs and Maya (through the British Museum World Cultures)
• Central America in the Ethnological Missionary Museum in the Vatican (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
  • Quetzalcóatl, Pre-Colombian Mexican divinity
• Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations (Kevin L. Callahan, University of Minnesota Department of Anthropology), with information about Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Aztec
• Views of Ancient Monuments: Chiapas and Yucatan (Frederick Catherwood, Archt., 1839 and 1841), part of the Mayan Collection of James A. Mcbride II
• Images of sites in Mesoamerica (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
• Mesoamerican Photo Archives (David R. Hixson, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University)
  • Bonampak
  • Cacaxtla
  • Calakmul
  • Chalcatzingo
  • Cholula
  • Chultuns
  • Ek Balam
  • Loltun Caves
  • Monte Alban
  • National Museum
  • Teotihuacan
  • Xochicalco
• Mesoweb, an exploration of Mesoamerican cultures (Merle Greene Robertson and Joel Skidmore)
• Meso-American Architecture (through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with links to
  • Teotihuacan
  • Monte Alban
  • Tical
  • Yaxchilan
  • Palenque
  • Copan
  • Uxumal
  • Edzna
  • Kabah
  • Labna
  • Sayil
  • Mitla
  • Chichen Itza
• Teotihuacan: The City of the Gods (Saburo Sugiyama: Arizona State University, Dept. of Anthropology), with movies and an
  • Introduction with links to:
    • Chronology Chart
    • Location of Teotihuacan in Mexico
    • General Map of Teotihuacan
    • Map of the Central Zone
    • The Avenue of the Dead
    • The Moon Pyramid
    • The Sun Pyramid
    • The Ciudadela
    • Bibliography
  • The Feathered Serpent Pyramid with links to:
    • The Feathered Serpent Pyramid: General
    • Architecture of the Feathered Serpent Pyramid
    • Iconography of the Facades at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid
    • Graves at the Feathered Serpent Pyrmaid
    • Osteology of the individuals buried at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid
    • Offerings at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid
    • Looters' Tunnel at the Feathered Serpent Pyramid
• The Templo Mayor Museum (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e História, México)
• Maya Vase Database (Justin Kerr) (through FAMSI: Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies), with a link to the Kerr Collections
  • Palace Scenes
  • Mythological Scenes
  • Warrior Scenes
  • Animal Scenes
• Maya Adventure (Science Museum of Minnesota), with a link to Maya Photo Archive
• Mayan Ruins, photos from Maya archaeological sites in Yucatán and Campeche, Mexico (Copyright © 1996 by Barbara McKenzie), with a clickable map
• Mayan Ruins by Ken Goehring, with links to:
  • Overview
  • Southern Lowland Maya Classic
  • Late Classic: Puuc Style
  • Late Classic: Chenes-Rio Bec Style
  • Late Classic: Chichen Itza
  • Post Classic
  • Summation
• The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
• Arte Maya Tz'utuhil Museum (contemporary Tz'utuhil Mayan oil paintings from the highlands of Guatemala)
• Maya Temples (in Japanese, but with pictures), with links to:
  • Chichen Itza
  • Uxmal
  • Kabah
  • Sayil
  • X'La-Pak
  • Labna
  • Altun Ha
  • Santa Rita Corozal
  • Cerros
  • San Estevan
  • Cuello
  • Lamanai
  • Caracol
• Caracol Archaeological Project
• Chichen Itza (through Mysterious Places)

SOUTH AMERICA
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• South American Images (a large selection of royalty free digital images for purchase through AnthroArcheArt.org)
  • Bolivia
    • Taquili Island, Lake Titicaca
    • Los Uros (Floating Islands)
    • Sulistani Chullpas, Aymara
    • Tiahuanaco
  • Peru
    • Acora, Quechua
    • Chavin de Huantar,
    • Chan-Chan, Huaca del Dragon. Huaca Esmeralda
    • Tshudi Complex, Chimu
    • Chankillo de Castello,,Chankillo
    • Huaca del Sol & del Luna, Moche
    • Great Wall at Santa,
    • Nazca Lines
    • Necropolis, Nazca
    • Pachacamac
    • Sechin
    • Wilkawain
  • Inca
    • Cusco, Coricancha, Tambomachay
    • Pisac, Intihuantana
    • Huinay-Huayna
    • Macchu Pichu
    • Marchahuasi
    • Ollantaytambo
    • Puca Pucara, Qenqoo
    • Runcurque
    • Tambo Colorado
• Andean History
• Inka Empire (15-16th c. A.D.) (through Images from History)
• The Andes (brief, with two photographs)
• The Lost Empire (PBS Nova Presentation)
• Fotos de Arte Precolombino
• Nasca y suis Líneas
  • Introducción
  • El descubrimiento
  • Nasca, Patrimonio cultural de la humanidad
  • Cómo permanecieron a través de los siglos
  • Figuras geométricas y humanas
  • Misteriosas figuras
  • Los nascas: ¿seres superiores?
  • Líneas de Nasca en vías de desaparición
  • María Reiche y su incansable labor
• Images of Megalithic sites in Peru (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
• Art in Southern America, in the collection of the Ethnological Missionary Museum in the Vatican (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
  • Mask (Chile, Tierra del Fuego)

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