• Maya/Aztec/Inca of the Lords of the Earth
  • Maya
  • Aztec
  • Inca
• Art of the Ancient Americas: Introduction in the collection of The Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
• Art of the Americas in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: de Young Museum
• Art of the Americas (in The George Ortiz Collection)
• Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• American Indian Art in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• Africa, Oceania and the Americas, with a link to Selected Works in The Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• African, Oceanic, and New World Culture s in the collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
• Pre-Columbian Collection, Dumbarton Oaks, with a gallery tour
  • Teotihuacan
  • Olmec
  • Maya
  • Maya
  • Veracruz
  • Intermediate area and early Andean
  • Andean
  • Aztec & Mixtec
  • Andean textiles
• Pre-Columbian Meso-America (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
• Precolumbian Art Research Institute
• Timelines of Art History: The World (Mike Gunther), including
  • Precolumbian Art of Mesoamerica (before 1521 AD/CE)
  • Precolumbian Art of South America (before 1532 AD/CE)
  • Native North America
• Pre-Columbian Art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
• National Museum of the American Indian (a Smithsonian Institution)

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 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.
• North America (through the British Museum)
• Totem Poles (through The Royal British Columbia Museum, Canada)
• Carving a totem pole at Skidegate, Haida Gwaii
  • The Carvers
  • Preparation
  • Tool Kit
  • Bear Figure
  • Whale Figure
  • Thunderbird Figure
  • Pole Raised
• Alaska's Totem Poles
• Totem Poles (through the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia)
• 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
• The Notukeu Museum and Archaeology On-line, with links to
  • Making Tools
  • Arrowheads
  • Experiment in Pottery Manufacture and Firing
  • Pigments and Paints
  • Making Pemmican
  • Tipi Construction
• Southwestern United States Rock Art Gallery (Doak Heyser), with links to
  Main Gallery
  • Buckhorn Wash
  • Four, Five, & Thirteen Faces
  • Chaco Canyon
  • All-American Man
  • Rochester Creek Panel
  • The Harvest Scene Panel
  • The Great Gallery
  • Three Rivers, New Mexico
  • Nine Mile Canyon
  • Dinwoody, Wyoming
  • Sego Canyon
  • Temple Mountain Wash
  • Dry Fork Canyon / McConkie Ranch
  • Vermillion Canyon, Colorado
  • Contemporary Rock Art
  • Miscellaneous Images
  • The Southwestern Landscape
• Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings (John F. Campbell), with links to
  • Rock Painting in the Sierra de San Francisco of Baja California Sur, Mexico
  • Basketmaker Fetish Heads
  • Ancestral Puebloan Flute Players
  • Basketmaker Gender Attributes
  • "Desecrated Panels"
  • Selected Barrier Canyon and Fremont Styles Region
  • Historic Navajo-Diné
  • Mancos Canyon System rock Art
  • Post-1300 A.D. Puebloan Rio Grande Styles
  • Village of the Great Kivas, Zuni
  • Jornada Mogollon Rock Art
  • Lower Butler Site, San Juan River
  • Various Basketmaker and Ancestral Puebloan
• 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)
• Woven by Grandmothers: 19th Century Navajo Textiles
  • Introduction
  • Production
  • Artists Featured
  • Blankets Featured
• Nampeyo Pottery (through the Arizona State Museum), with links to
  • Introduction
  • Gallery
  • Ancestral Hopi Pottery
• The Ruth and Charles Elkus Collection of Native American Art
• 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
• The Chilkat Blanket
• Native American Art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
• Native America in the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art)
• Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado, with links to
  • Archaeological Sites
    • Escalante Pueblo
    • Dominguez Pueblo
    • Lowry Pueblo
  • Artifact Gallery
• The Anasazi Pueblos
• Pueblo Pottery (through the Internet Public Library), with a link to the Pueblo Pottery Gallery
• Guide to Hopi Kachinas (through McGee's Indian Art Gallery, Hopiland, Keams Canyon, Arizona)
• Images of sites in California: rock art at Burro Flats, Mockingbird Canyon, Olsen Canyon (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
• Ancient Americans (through Mysterious Places), with links to:
  • Mesa Verde
  • Tonto National Monument
  • Horseshoe Canyon
• Mesa Verde, with links to:
  • Far View House
  • Square Tower House
  • Cliff Palace
  • Spruce House
  • Wupatki
  • Mesa Verde
  • Aztec
  • Chaco Canyon
• Chaco Canyon National Monument (through the National Park Service)
• Cliff Dwellings (Katrina Cook, c/o Professor Michael Greenhalgh, Department of Art History, Australian National University)
  • Stages of Anasazi History
  • The Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde National Park
    • Cliff Palace
    • Square Tower House
    • Spruce Tree House
    • Interior of Spruce Tree House
    • Oak Tree House
      Other sites in the Mesa Verde National Park
      
    • Fire Temple
    • Balcony House
    • New Fire House
  • Aztec Ruins National Monument, Aztec, New Mexico (through the National Park Service)
• Southwest American Indian Ruins (through Howard Partridge's Cupola)
• Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
• Ancient Architects of the Mississippi, with links to:
  • Life Along the Mississippi, with links to:
    • Village Life in Cahokia -1, Village Life in Cahokia - 2, Village Life in Cahokia - 3, Village Life in Cahokia - 4, Prehistoric Engineering -1, Prehistoric Engineering -2 (paintings by Michael Hampshire)
  • Delta Voices, with links to:
    • Early Explorers
    • A Dawning Curiosity
    • Native Views
    • Today's Perspective
  • Traders and Travelers, with a link to:
    • small bowl with nodes found at Rose Mound in Arkansas
  • The Moundbuilders, with links to:
    • Emerald Mound
    • Art of 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
• The Mississippian Moundbuilders and their Artifacts
• Mississippian Cultures
• Serpent Mound, Ohio
• The Great Serpent Mound (through ArtsEdNet)
• Serpent Mound State Memorial
• The Great Serpent Mound
• 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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• Mesoamerican Cultures and Regions (Edgar Martin del Campo), with links to
  • Formative Period (2000 BCE - 100 CE)
    • Early Preclassic / Formative
    • Olmec
    • Olmec Art II - Colossal Stone Sculpture
  • Classic Period (100 - 900 CE)
    • Zapotec
    • Teotihuacan
    • Northern Realms
    • Western Realms
    • Western Realms II - Colima Ceramics
    • Southern Realms - Costa Rica
    • Maya I
    • Maya II - on location
    • Maya III - Bonampak and Jaina
  • Post-Classic Period (900 - 1521 CE)
    • Toltec
    • Toltec II - on location at Tula
    • Northern Gulf Coast I - Huaxtec Sculpture
    • Northern Gulf Coast II - Totonac Pottery
    • Mixtec
    • Aztec I
    • Aztec II - the Great Temple
    • Aztec III - a Fantastic Bestiary
    plus
    
  • Mesoamerican Deities
    • The Primeval Fire
    • The Rain of the Earth
    • The Feathered Serpent
    • Wind - the Breath of Life
    • The Flayed Lord
    • The Earth Mother
    • The Renewing Sun
    and
    
  • Special Topics
    • The Ball Game
    • Chichén Itzá - a study in cultural transition
    • The Land of the Dead
    • Omeyotl - the Cosmic Duality
    • Jade - a Sacred Stone
    • Gold from Central America
• Mesoamerica: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 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
• Latin America (through the British Museum)
• 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)
• Tlahuica Ruins Near Cuernavaca (Dr. Michael E. Smith, Professor of Anthropology, University at Albany, New York)
• Mystery of the Maya, with links to:
  • Maya civilization
  • Exhibits on the Plaza
  • People of the Jaguar
• 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)
• Mexico (part of the site Periods in Art History, Anne S. de Luengas, ITESM Campus Tampico), with links to:
  • Olmecs
  • Mayans
  • Teotihuacan
  • Huastecs
  • Tajin
  • Colony
  • Independence
  • Turn of the Century
  • Muralism

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)
• Art and Culture of the Incas (Jorge Ruiz)
  • Pottery
  • Gold
  • Masonry
  • History
  • Timeline
• The Lost Empire (PBS Nova Presentation)
• Camino Inka a Machu Picchu - Cusco
• Cuzco, Peru, with links to
  • Machu Picchu
  • Ollantaytambo
  • Sacsayhuaman
• Fotos de Arte Precolombino
• The Nazca Lines (Gloria Chang, through The Discovery Channel Canada Online), with links to:
  • The Greatest Scratch Pad on Earth
  • Peruvian Desert a Perfect Tableau of Peruvian 'Artists'
  • Rituals, Deity Worship - Were These the Purposes of the Nazca Lines?
• 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)

OCEANIA
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• Oceanic (Professor Ron Johnson), with links to:
  • Australia
  • Papua/New Guinea
  • Trobriand
  • Vanuatu (New Hebrides)
  • New Ireland
  • Hawaii
  • Maori
  • Tahitian Islands: Tahiti, Huahini, Raiatea
  • Cook Islands
  • Austral Islands
  • Marquesas
  • Easter Islands (Rapa Nui)
• Oceania: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)
  • Easter Island
  • Lapita Pottery (ca. 1500 - 500 B.C.)
  • Early Maori Woodcarvings
  • Moai Figures
  • Nan Madol
  • Prehistoric Stone Sculpture from New Guinea
  • Ubirr (ca. 40,000? - present)
  • X-ray style in Arnhem Land Rock Art
• Oceanic Art in the Ethnological Missionary Museum in the Vatican (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
  • Polynesia
    • Tu, main divinity of the pantheon of Mangareva island
    • Figure of Moai Kavakava ancestor
  • Melanesia and New Guinea
    • The ceremonial Men's House, Tamaran
  • Australia
    • Tutini funerary poles for the Pukamani ceremony
• Oceanic Art (through etciù Museum)
• The American Museum of Asmat Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, with links to
  • The Asmat People and Their Culture
  • Asmat Art
• Asmat Shields, Papua (Irian Jaya), Indonesia
• Nan Madol, Madolenihmw, Pohnpei
• Mysterious Nan Madol, Pohnpei (Jane Resture)
• The Lost City of Nan Madol (through Science Frontiers)
• Pacific (through the British Museum)
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • Pacific Islands
• Engravings of the South Pacific from M.G.L. Domeny de Rienzi's Océanie ou Cinquième Partie du Monde, published in Paris in 1836 by Firmin Didot Frères (through Map South Pacific)
  • South Sea Islands
  • Timor
  • Papua
  • Indonesia
  • Australia
• Art of the Pacific (in The George Ortiz Collection)
• Oceanic Art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
• Oceanic Art in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
• Oceanic Art in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: de Young Museum
• Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art in the collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
• Dreamweb: Australian Aboriginal Art & Culture
• Artistic styles of rock art in Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
• Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
• Aboriginal Art, Culture & Spirituality (Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library : The Internet Guide to Aboriginal Studies)
• Images of sites in Easter Island (Photographs Copyright © Clive Ruggles, Leicester University)
• Easter Island
• Secrets of Easter Island (PBS NOVA Online), with links to:
  • Move a Megalith
  • Explore the Island
  • Lost Civilization, with additional links to:
    • First Inhabitants
    • Ancient Navigation
    • Stone Giants
• Easter Island (through Mysterious Places, text and photography © Cliff Wassmann), with links to:
  • The Story
  • Island Tour
  • Who were the Easter Islanders?
• Easter Island (Steven Hunt, through The Discovery Channel Canada Online), with links to:
  • Rapa Nui and its moai
  • The Mystery of the 'Walking' Statues
  • Is Bigger Really Better
• The New Guinea Sculpture Garden at Stanford

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