General:

• Arqueología Ecuatoriana - Ecuadorian archaeology, Spanish only
• ArchNet: South America - easy access to many interesting and useful links!
• Cloth & Clay:  Communicating Culture - Textile Museum of Canada & Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
• Cultures of the Andes - Pictures, songs, dance, Quechua language, jokes, poetry, etc.
• Peru Explorer Tourist Agency - Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Nasca, Sipán, L. Titicaca, etc.
• Proyecto Ukhupacha - Extreme(!) Andean archaeology:  cliffs, caves, and other terrors; great website
• Quipu - For researchers of Andean archaeology - San Diego State University
• Sites and Places in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru - Photos of major tourist attractions

Maps:

• Maps of South America (NGS)
• Map of Peru (NGS)
• Map of Peru (Lonely Planet)
• Map of Bolivia (NGS)
• Map of Bolivia (Lonely Planet)
• Map of Bolivia

Some Andean Music

• Intiq Churin ("Children of the Sun) - Quechua song

  • Cultures of the Andes - MP3 version

  • Dudley Virtual Resource Center - Real Player version

• Paisaje de Nieve - Ruphay (Mario Gutierrez).  Llajta ( Real Audio)

• El Portal Sarhuino - traditional music, dance, and construction of Inca-style suspension bridge

Andean Glaciers

• Bolivian Glaciers Shrinking Fast - BBC News, 12/10/2002

• Glacial Snow Disappearing from Andes - Interpress Third World News Agency, 7/15/1999

• Melting glaciers threaten Peru - Daily University Science News, 10/9/2003

• Recent Glacier Shrinkage in the Andes ... - July 2004 conference in Huaraz, Peru

• Small Glaciers Of The Andes May Vanish In 10-15 Years - Daily University Science News, 1/17/01

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Paleo-Indian:

• Fell's Cave, Chile - Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Original Peopling of Latin America - A. L. Bryan, Ch. 2 of Historia General de America Latina
• Pedra Pintada, Brazil - Archaeology July/August 1996
• Pedra Pintada, Brazil - Mammoth Trumpet 11(3) 1996
• Preceramic Society in the Central Andean Highlands - Research in the Central Peruvian puna

Monte Verde Site

• Monte Verde - Universidad Austral de Chile - in Spanish
• Monte Verde Excavation: or Clovis Police Beat a Retreat - news items from 1998-1999
• Monte Verde Under Fire - challenges published in Archaeology Magazine in 1999
• On Monte Verde:  Fiedel's Confusions and Misrepresentations - Extensive six-part response in 1999

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Coast:

• Arkeomala - Proyecto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en el Valle de Mala, central coast of Peru (Spanish)
• Caral Civilization Peru - Links to research updates and international controversy; Central Coast of Peru
• Climate Diagnostics Center - El Niño
• La Cultura Chinchorro - Ancient mummies from northern Chile (Spanish)
• Lomas de Lurín - Archaeological research in the lomas zone on Peru's central coast (Spanish)
• Nazca Archaeology - Pottery and desert drawings, South Coast of Peru (French)
• Nasca Drawings Collection - Christiane Clados (FAMSI)
• Pachacamac Archaeological Project - Izumi Shimada - Southern Illinois University
• La Paloma - Virtual reality trip through a Middle Archaic village in the lomas zone
• The Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization: An Evolving Hypothesis - Michael Mosely, 2004
• Sicán Archaeological Project - long-term research project on a major Moche site in the Lambayeque Valley, North Coast of Peru
• Ychsma Project - Université Libre de Bruxelles research at Pachacamac, Central Coast of Peru

Moche Valley, North Coast of Peru

• Las Huacas del Sol y de la Luna - in English
• Las Huacas del Sol y de la Luna - in English, another site

Sipán Site, Far North Coast of Peru

• Discovering Sipán - Walter Alva, Brunning Archaeological Museum
• The Lord of Sipan's Burial 
• The Lords of Sipán - Reviews of new book by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
• Royal Tombs of Sipán - Red Científica Peruana (in Spanish)
• Royal Tombs of Sipán (Spanish)
• Sipán - by Walter Alva, project director; excellent graphics! (Spanish)
• Unraveling the Mystery of the Warrior Priest - Chris Donnan, in National Geographic 1988

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Sierra:

Camelids

• Alpacas of Chase Tavern Farm - Bowdoin, Maine
• LlamaWeb: Llamas on the Internet
• Pacaweb, An Alpaca Gathering Place 
• Further camelid listings for ANT 340

Crops

• Andean Agriculture - UN Food & Agriculture Organization + Córdoba Botanical Gardens
• International Potato Center (CIP) - Research on Andean tuber & root crops

Early Horizon

• Chavín - in Spanish
• Chavín de Huantar
• Exploring Chavín de Huantar

Middle Horizon

• Arqueología Andina y Tiwanaku - useful for many other aspects of Andean archaeology as well, mainly in English (Alvaro Higueras)
• Moquegua Archaeological Survey
• Wari - Minnesota State University at Mankato

Late Horizon / Inca

• Hard Times in Ecuador:  Inka Troubles at Pambamarca - Antiquity 77 (295) March 2003.  Archaeological investigations of a fortress where native Ecuadorians resisted the Inca conquest.
• Inca Building Projects - Interamerican Institute
• Inca Trail and Machu Picchu - South America's most famous tourist attraction(s)
• Los Incas - María Rostworowski, in Spanish, but good photos and maps
• Qosqo, Inkas' Sacred Capital - photos, music, and summaries
• Realm of Tawantinsuyu - Mesa Community College, AZ
  • A Brief Inca Economics Lesson - Michael Moseley, The Incas and Their Ancestors
  • Imperial Heartland - Michael Moseley, The Incas and Their Ancestors
• Saraguro, Ecuador:  Investigating Inca Imperial Strategies - UC-Santa Barbara project

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