New (10/29/02):

• Don't Blame Columbus for All the Indians' Ills - NY Times story about latest research on general health of prehistoric populations in the Americas; blames agriculture and urbanism for major decline in health.

General

• Ancient Mesoamerican Civilizations - University of Minnesota
• Ancient Middle America
• Ancient Scripts.com - Aztec writing, etc.
• Aztec Calendar - Today's date in the Aztec calendar, and more
• Aztlan Articles
• Mesoamerican Archaeology
• Mexico:  Splendors of Thirty Centuries - Texas Humanities Resource Center
• Precolumbian Cultures - Olmec, Maya, and Aztec (University of Guadalajara)

Food Production

• Archaeological Evidence of Teosinte Domestication from Guilá Naquitz, Oaxaca - BF Benz, Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.. 2001
• Documenting Plant Domestication... Biological and Archaeological Approaches - BD Smith, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.. 2001
• Earliest Archaeological Maize (Zea mays L.) from Highland Mexico - DR Piperno and KV Flannery, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.. 2001
• How Seeds Are Dispersed - Virtual Teacher Aide - Touch-me-nots and other "explosive" seed pods

Olmec

• The Olmec World:  Ritual and Rulership - Tribal Arts

Highland States

• Monte Albán - in Oaxaca, Mexico (Mesoamerican Photo Archives, Tulane University)
• Teotihuacán Home Page

Maya

• Ancient Maya Civilization
• Caracol.org - Official Website of the Caracol Archaeological Project
• Maya Civilization - Canadian Museum of Civilization
• Maya Hieroglyphs Recount "Giant War" - National Geographic News, September 2002
• Maya Ruins.com - Maps & photos, including Tikal (Barbara A. McKenzie)
• Mayan Resource Page
• Palenque - Classic Maya site in SE Mexico (Mesoweb)
• Welkom bij Tikal B.V. - Good photos

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